Connectivity management in mobile robot teams

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1525-1530

  Stump, Ethan ^a   Jadbabaie, Ali ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

COMMUNICATION QUALITY; HOP-COUNT; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LAPLACIAN;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649096484     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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