Large-scale multi-robot task allocation via dynamic partitioning and distribution

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 291-307

  Liu, Lantao ^a   Shell, Dylan A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assignment partitioning; Dynamic assignment; Multi robot task allocation

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; ASSIGNMENT PARTITIONING; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; DIFFERENT SCALE; DYNAMIC ASSIGNMENT; DYNAMIC PARTITIONING; DYNAMIC TASK ALLOCATION; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GENERALIZED ASSIGNMENTS; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; MULTI-ROBOT TASK ALLOCATION; OPTIMAL ASSIGNMENT; PARTITIONING OPERATION; PARTITIONING TECHNIQUES; ROBUST METHODS; SOLUTION QUALITY; UTILITY MATRICES;

COMMUNICATION; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84865271541     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-012-9303-2     Document Type: Article

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