Automata-based supervisory controller for a mobile robot team

3rd IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium, LARS'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 53-59

  Tsalatsanis, A ^a   Yalcin, A ^a   Valavanis, K P ^a  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile robot teams; Supervisory control

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATA THEORY; AUTOMATION; FINITE AUTOMATA; LEVEL CONTROL; MACHINE DESIGN; MAINTENANCE; MOBILE ROBOTS; REPAIR; ROBOTICS; SCADA SYSTEMS; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

(SEMI)AUTOMATA; CONTROL FEEDBACK; CONTROLLER DESIGNS; FINITE STATE AUTOMATA (FSA); IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LATIN AMERICAN (LA); MODELING TOOLS; MONITOR (CO); PRIORITIZATION; RESOURCE FAILURES; ROBOT COOPERATION; ROBOT TEAMS; SENSOR FAILURES; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; SUPERVISORY CONTROLLERS; TASK ASSIGNMENTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 46149084658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LARS.2006.334321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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