A robot swarm assisting a human fire-fighter

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 93-117

  Penders, Jacques ^a   Alboul, Lyuba ^a   Witkowski, Ulf ^b   Naghsh, Amir ^a   Saez Pons, Joan ^a   Herbrechtsmeier, Stefan ^b   El Habbal, Mohamed ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

human robot (swarm) interface; mobile ad hoc networks; search and rescue; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; GUIDANCE INFORMATION; HUMAN BEING; HUMAN ROBOTS; LARGE DIMENSIONS; ROBOT SWARMS; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SWARM OF ROBOTS; SWARM ROBOTICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FIRES; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WAREHOUSES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 78650155931     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918610X538507     Document Type: Article

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