Multi-robot olfactory search in structured environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 867-881

  Marjovi, Ali ^a   Marques, Lino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Odor source localization; Olfactory search; Search in structured environments; Topological exploration

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED APPROACHES; EVALUATION FUNCTION; EXPLORATION PROCESS; GLOBAL MAP; MAP MERGING; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOT; MULTIROBOTS; ODOR CONCENTRATIONS; ODOR SOURCE LOCALIZATION; ODOR SOURCES; OLFACTORY SEARCH; REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENTS; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SEARCH IN STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS; SEARCH TIME; STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT; TOPOLOGICAL GRAPHS; TOPOLOGICAL MAP;

IMAGE MATCHING; PATTERN MATCHING; ROBOTS; TOPOLOGY;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80052847277     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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