Parameter estimation and optimal control of swarm-robotic systems: A case study in distributed task allocation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3302-3307

  Correll, Nikolaus ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL THEORY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INTERSECTIONS; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CASE STUDIES; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OPTIMAL CONTROL;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 51649118657     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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