Robotic chain formations

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 19-24

  Maxim, Paul M ^a   Spears, William M ^b   Spears, Diana F ^b  

^a Wyoming Department of Transportation   (United States)

^b Swarmotics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain formations; Collaborative robots; Robot localization; Trilateration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATION; CHAIN FORMATION; COLLABORATIVE ROBOTS; COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRILATERATION; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78649831715     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20091006-3-US-4006.0012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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