Multirobot systems: A classification focused on coordination

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2015-2028

  Farinelli, Alessandro ^a   Iocchi, Luca ^a   Nardi, Daniele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

MULTIAGENT ROBOTICS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS COORDINATION; TAXONOMY;

ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER NETWORK; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; ROBOTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; ROBOTICS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 4844226228     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2004.832155     Document Type: Article

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