On fast exploration in 2D and 3D terrains with multiple robots

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 46-53

  Sawhney, Rahul ^a   Krishna, K Madhava ^a   Srinathan, Kannan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

3D; Exploration; Metric; Multi robots; Terrain; UAV

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; LANDFORMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; ROBOTICS; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VISIBILITY;

3D; EXPLORATION STRATEGIES; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; METRIC; MULTIROBOTS; PERFORMANCE GAIN; TERRAIN; UNKNOWN TERRAIN;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84855937034     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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