An integrated testbed for heterogeneous mobile robots and other cooperating objects

IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3327-3332

  Jiménez González, Adrián ^a   Martínez de Dios, José Ramiro ^a   Ollero, Aníbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE PERCEPTION; DISTRIBUTED TECHNIQUES; IEEE-1394; ITS ARCHITECTURE; LASER RANGERS; MODULAR ARCHITECTURES; MULTIROBOTS; REMOTE MONITORING; STANDARD SOFTWARE; STATIC WSN;

CAMERAS; EMBEDDED SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SENSOR NODES; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; VISUALIZATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651471033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5650665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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