Role-based autonomous multi-robot exploration

Computation World: Future Computing, Service Computation, Adaptive, Content, Cognitive, Patterns, ComputationWorld 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 482-487

  De Hoog, Julian ^a   Cameron, Stephen ^a   Visser, Arnoud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Limited communication; Multi agent systems; Robotic exploration; Role based behaviour; Search and rescue robots

Indexed keywords

COMMAND CENTRES; COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGS; EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RESCUE ROBOTICS; ROBOTIC EXPLORATIONS; ROLE-BASED; SEARCH AND RESCUE ROBOT;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951017319     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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