Consensus-based decentralized auctions for robust task allocation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 912-926

  Choi, Han Lim ^a   Brunet, Luc ^b   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Frontline Robotics   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed robot systems; Networked robots; Task allocation for multiple mobile robots

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION ALGORITHM; ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; AUCTION ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; COMMUNICATION NETWORK TOPOLOGY; CONFLICT FREE; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; DECISION STRATEGY; DISTRIBUTED ROBOT SYSTEMS; FEASIBLE SOLUTION; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORKED ROBOTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ROBUST TASK; SCORING SCHEMES; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK ALLOCATION FOR MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOTS; TASK SELECTION; WORST-CASE PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMMERCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FLEET OPERATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 69249232093     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2009.2022423     Document Type: Article

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