Unifying geometric, probabilistic, and potential field approaches to multi-robot coverage control

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 70, Issue STAR, 2011, Pages 21-38

  Schwager, Mac ^a   Slotine, Jean Jacques ^b   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; CONSENSUS PROBLEMS; COVERAGE CONTROL; COVERAGE PROBLEM; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; MULTI-AGENT PROBLEMS; MULTIROBOTS; NONCONVEX COST FUNCTIONS; POTENTIAL FIELD; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; VORONOI PARTITION;

CONTROLLERS; COST FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79957979057     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19457-3_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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