Information propagation applied to robot-assisted evacuation

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 856-861

  Robinette, Paul ^a   Vela, Patricio A ^a   Howard, Ayanna M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EMERGENCY SITUATION; FATALITY RATES; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; LOWER BOUNDS; MOST LIKELY; NUMBER OF PEOPLES; SURVIVAL RATE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84864467589     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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