Making networked robots connectivity-aware

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3502-3507

  Le, Van Tuan ^a,b,c   Bouraqadi, Noury ^a   Stinckwich, Serge ^b   Moraru, Victor ^c   Doniec, Arnaud ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE DOUAI   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c IFI   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Connectivity maintenance; Distributed robot motion control; Dynamic graph; Mobile ad hoc network; Multi robot systems

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED ROBOT MOTION CONTROL; DYNAMIC GRAPH; KEY ISSUES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; NETWORK CONNECTIVITY; NETWORKED ROBOT; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MAINTENANCE; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 70350366420     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152471     Document Type: Conference Paper

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