Route scheduling approach for airport snow shoveling using formations of autonomous ploughs

2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 390-397

  Saska, Martin ^a   Hess, Martin ^a   Schilling, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Formations driving; Mobile robotics; Path planning; Route scheduling

Indexed keywords

CLEANING PROCESS; FORMATIONS DRIVING; HARDWARE EXPERIMENTS; HEURISTIC APPROACHES; INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS; MOBILE ROBOTICS; OPTIMAL SEQUENCES; PATH PLANNING; ROUTE SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING METHODS; SPECIFIC TASKS; SPLITTING AND MERGING; TEAM COMPOSITIONS;

CLEANING; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING; SHOVELS; SNOW;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 64549116712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV.2008.4795551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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