Cooperative exploration for usar robots with indirect communication

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 6, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 554-559

  Ziparo, Vittorio Amos ^a   Kleiner, Alexander ^b   Farinelli, Alessandro ^a   Marchetti, Luca ^a   Nardi, Daniele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOTS; SLAM ROBOTICS; SMOKE;

CONVENTIONAL METHODS; COOPERATIVE EXPLORATION; DATA ASSOCIATION; DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS; FRAME OF REFERENCE; INDIRECT COMMUNICATION; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; VISUAL FEATURE;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79960931464     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20070903-3-fr-2921.00094     Document Type: Conference Paper

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