Multi-robot assignment algorithm for tasks with set precedence constraints

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2526-2533

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

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auction algorithm; Multi robot assignment; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

ASSIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; AUCTION ALGORITHMS; CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS; FIXED NUMBERS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PRECEDENCE CONSTRAINTS; SHARED MEMORY MODEL; TASK ALLOCATION; TASK ASSIGNMENT; TASK GROUPS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84871706082     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980500     Document Type: Conference Paper

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