Multi-robot, multi-target particle swarm optimization search in noisy wireless environments

Proceedings - 2009 2nd Conference on Human System Interactions, HSI '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 81-86

  Derr, Kurt ^a   Manic, Milos ^b  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitness; Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO); Received Signal Strength (RSS); Wireless

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GUIDE ROBOTS; HIGH RISK ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE ROBOT; MULTIPLE TARGETS; MULTIROBOTS; MULTITARGET; NOISY ENVIRONMENT; PSO ALGORITHMS; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH (RSS); SEARCH TIME; SINGLE ROBOTS; SMALL ROBOTS; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; WEIGHTING FACTORS; WIRELESS; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LOCATION; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; TARGETS;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 70350000410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HSI.2009.5090958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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