Stochastic source seeking in complex environments

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3013-3018

  Atanasov, Nikolay ^a   Le Ny, Jerome ^a   Michael, Nathan ^a   Pappas, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MOBILE ROBOTS;

ASYMPTOTIC CONVERGENCE; CHEMICAL CONCENTRATIONS; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; STOCHASTIC GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84864438962     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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