Dynamic redistribution of a swarm of robots among multiple sites

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2320-2325

  Halász, Ádám ^a   Hsieh, M Ani ^a   Berman, Spring ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT; EXPLORATION MISSIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SEARCH-AND-RESCUE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349168582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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