Distributed algorithms for environment partitioning in mobile robotic networks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1834-1848

  Pavone, Marco ^a   Arsie, Alessandro ^b   Frazzoli, Emilio ^c   Bullo, Francesco ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous systems; cooperative control; decentralized control; multirobot systems; sensor networks

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED IMPLEMENTATION; DYNAMIC VEHICLE ROUTING; EQUITABLE PARTITIONS; LLOYD ALGORITHM; MOBILE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; POWER DIAGRAMS; SERVICE REQUESTS; STATIC ENVIRONMENT; UNIQUE FEATURES; VORONOI DIAGRAMS; WORKLOAD SHARING;

ALGORITHMS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC ROUTING ALGORITHMS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 80051524702     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2011.2112410     Document Type: Article

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