Coordinating recharging of large scale robotic teams

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1357-1362

  Drenner, Andrew ^a   Janssen, Michael ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATTERY LIFE; DOCKING STATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

DOCKING;

EID: 76249093627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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