Cooperative sensing and recognition by a swarm of mobile robots

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 551-558

  Giusti, Alessandro ^a   Nagi, Jawad ^a   Gambardella, Luca ^a   Di Caro, Gianni A ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE SENSING; DISTRIBUTED CONSENSUS; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; HAND GESTURE; HAND IMAGES; LOW-BANDWIDTH; MULTIPLE POINTS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; REAL IMAGES; REAL ROBOT; REAL TIME RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; VISUAL RECOGNITION; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84872296288     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2012.6385982     Document Type: Conference Paper

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