Robot formations using only local sensing and control

Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, CIRA

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 308-313

  Fredslund, Jakob ^a,c   Matarić, Maja J ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Maja Matarié's Interaction Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CAMERAS; RADIO LINKS; ROBOTS;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEHAVIOR-BASED; DESIRED ANGLES; GEOMETRIC SHAPE; GLOBAL BEHAVIORS; LOCAL SENSING; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; ROBOT FORMATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 46149093959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIRA.2001.1013217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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