Automatic deployment and formation control of decentralized multi-agent networks

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 134-139

  Smith, Brian S ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus ^a   Howard, Ayanna ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE VEHICLES; COMMUNICATION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; GRAPH THEORY; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

CONTROL PROGRAMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI-AGENT NETWORKS;

CONCURRENCY CONTROL;

EID: 51649109134     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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