Multi-robot complete exploration using hill climbing and topological recovery

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1884-1889

  Rocha, Rui ^a   Ferreira, Filipe ^a,b   Dias, Jorge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomous exploration; Map building; Multi robot systems; Occupancy grids; Topological maps

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS EXPLORATION; MAP BUILDING; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; OCCUPANCY GRIDS; TOPOLOGICAL MAPS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 69549138419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2008.4650625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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