On the efficiency of local and global communication in modular robots

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1502-1508

  Garcia, Ricardo Franco Mendoza ^a,b   Schultz, Ulrik Pagh ^a   Stoy, Kasper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION; FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATION; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; OPTIMAL TOPOLOGIES; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; MODULAR ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 76249129019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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