Traffic control for a swarm of robots: Avoiding target congestion

2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1955-1961

  Marcolino, Leandro Soriano ^a   Chaimowicz, Luiz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION ALGORITHMS; LARGE GROUPS; LOCAL SENSING; PROBABILISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINES; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SWARM OF ROBOTS;

ALGORITHMS; NAVIGATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 76249083451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354407     Document Type: Conference Paper

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