Incremental multi-robot task selection for resource constrained and interrelated tasks

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2314-2319

  Sariel, Sanem ^a   Balch, Tucker ^b   Erdogan, Nadia ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATION REACTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; VIBRATION CONTROL;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; TASK SELECTION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349113342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399519     Document Type: Conference Paper

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