Autonomy spectrum and performance perception issues in swarm supervisory control

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 590-603

  Coppin, Gilles ^a   Legras, François ^b  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b Deev Interaction   (France)

Author keywords

Autonomy spectrum; patrol; performance; supervisory control; swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONTROL THEORY;

AUTONOMY SPECTRUMS; PATROL; PERFORMANCE; SUPERVISORY CONTROL; SWARM ROBOTICS;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84857363051     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2174103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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