Coordinated multi-robot real-time exploration with connectivity and bandwidth awareness

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5460-5465

  Pei, Yuanteng ^a   Mutka, Matt W ^a   Xi, Ning ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINT; BANDWIDTH-AWARE; BANDWIDTH-CONSTRAINED; COMMUNICATION QUALITY; DATA FLOW; LINK CAPACITIES; MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; MULTIROBOTS; NODE PLACEMENT; RELAY NODE PLACEMENT; ROUTING PATH; STEINER MINIMUM TREES; TARGET POSITION; TRANSMISSION TIME;

BANDWIDTH; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955827124     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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