Collaborative exploration for a group of self-interested robots

Proceedings - 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 184-191

  O'Beirne, D ^a   Schukat, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

COOPERATIVE ROBOTS; EXPLORATION TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE ROBOT; NEW APPROACHES; REAL-WORLD; ROBOT EXPLORATION; SENSOR DATA; SOCIAL AGENTS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 37249066783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CRV.2005.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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