Robot formations: Robots allocation and leader-follower pairs

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3769-3775

  Monteiro, Sérgio ^a   Bicho, Estela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOTICS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEADER-FOLLOWER; LOW-BANDWIDTH;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51649096714     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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