Implicit cooperation strategies for multi-robot search of unknown areas

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 381-397

  Anderson, Monica ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Implicit communications; Multirobot systems; Search

Indexed keywords

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; CONSISTENT; COOPERATION; COOPERATION STRATEGIES; IMPLICIT COMMUNICATIONS; LIMITED COMMUNICATIONS; LOCAL SENSORS; MESSAGE EXCHANGES; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; RELIABLE NETWORKS; SEARCH; SEARCH AREAS; SEARCH PROBLEMS; TEAM MEMBERS; TEAM SIZES;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 54949158264     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-008-9242-5     Document Type: Article

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