Multi-robot team coordination through roles, positionings and coordinated procedures

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5841-5848

  Lau, Nuno ^a   Lopes, Luís Seabra ^a   Corrente, Gustavo ^b,c   Filipe, Nelson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c Calouste Gulbenkian Ed E   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC ROLES; INFORMATION SHARING; MULTI-ROBOT TEAMS; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; PRIORITY-BASED; ROBOCUP; ROBOTIC SOCCER TEAM; TEAM SIZE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 76249133341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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