Persistent monitoring of changing environments using a robot with limited range sensing

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5448-5455

  Smith, Stephen L ^a   Schwager, Mac ^b   Rus, Daniela ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; FINITE SET; LINEAR PROGRAMS; OPTIMAL SPEED; RANGE SENSING; SPEED CONTROLLER; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

ROBOTICS; SPEED CONTROL;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84859767035     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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