A multi-threads architecture for the motion coordination of a heterogeneous multi-robot system

Proceedings - 2007 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Special Session, MICAI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 418-428

  Marchese, Fabio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS METHOD; AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; CONCURRENT THREADS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEM; KNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; LAYERED ARCHITECTURE; MOTION COORDINATION; MOTION PLANNERS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 57749177921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICAI.2007.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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