A cooperative approach for multi-robot area exploration

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1390-1395

  Yuan, Jing ^a   Huang, Yalou ^a   Tao, Tong ^a   Sun, Fengchi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RANGE; DISTRIBUTED EXPLORATION; FRONTIER POINT; GLOBAL EXPLORATION; INFORMATION GAIN; KNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; MULTI-STAGE; MULTIROBOTS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRAJECTORY PLANNING; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS;

COMMUNICATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78651492867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5650551     Document Type: Conference Paper

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