Competitive analysis of repeated greedy auction algorithm for online multi-robot task assignment

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4792-4799

  Luo, Lingzhi ^a   Chakraborty, Nilanjan ^a   Sycara, Katia ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction algorithm; Competitive analysis; Multi robot assignment; Online algorithm; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

AUCTION ALGORITHMS; COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS; MULTIROBOTS; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; TASK ALLOCATION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864430836     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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