Scaling effects in multi-robot control

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2121-2126

  Velagapudi, Prasanna ^a   Scerri, Paul ^a   Sycara, Katia ^a   Wang, Huadong ^b   Lewis, Michael ^b   Wang, Jijun ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Quantum Leap Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASK; HUMAN CONTROL; MULTIROBOTS; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SCALING EFFECTS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEAM SIZE; URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 69549128299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4651073     Document Type: Conference Paper

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