Agent-based distributed architecture for mobile robot control

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 805-823

  Posadas, J L ^a   Poza, J L ^a   Simo J E ^a   Benet, G ^a   Blanes, F ^a  

^a Instituto de Automática e Informática Industrial AI2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Agent based systems; Distributed computer control systems; Mobile robots; Object oriented technology; Real time systems

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AGENTS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; MOBILE AGENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; STABILIZERS (AGENTS);

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; AGENT-BASED; AND REAL TIME; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; MOBILE ROBOT CONTROL; PHYSICAL AGENTS; ROBOT ARCHITECTURE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 46149112420     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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