A fast and frugal method for team-task allocation in a multi-robot transportation system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1432-1437

  Wawerla, Jens ^a   Vaughan, Richard T ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION DECISION; ALLOCATION STRATEGY; ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; LINEAR TIME; MULTIROBOTS; RULE BASED; RULE-BASED METHOD; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SINGLE-VALUE; TASK ALLOCATION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77955786275     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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