Dynamic team hierarchies in communication-limited multi-robot exploration

8th IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, SSRR-2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  De Hoog, Julian ^a   Cameron, Stephen ^a   Visser, Arnoud ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

dynamic hierarchy; limited communication; rendezvous; robotic search and rescue; role based exploration

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION RANGE; EXPLORATION EFFORT; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; RENDEZVOUS; ROLE-BASED; SEARCH AND RESCUE; TEAM MEMBERS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PLANT EXTRACTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 80052557376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSRR.2010.5981573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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