Decentralized task allocation with coupled constraints in complex missions

Proceedings of the American Control Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1642-1649

  Whitten, Andrew K ^a   Choi, Han Lim ^b   Johnson, Luke B ^a   How, Jonathan P ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

BIDDING STRATEGY; COMPLEX MISSION; COUPLED CONSTRAINTS; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; RELATIVE TIMING; TASK ALLOCATION; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 80053147358     PISSN: 07431619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/acc.2011.5990917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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