Robust distributed coverage using a swarm of miniature robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 379-384

  Correll, Nikolaus ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MINIATURE ROBOTS; ROBOT COORDINATION; ROBOTIC PLATFORM; WHEEL SLIP;

ROBOTS;

EID: 36348939341     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363816     Document Type: Conference Paper

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