Adaptive deployment of mobile robotic networks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 654-666

  Le Ny, Jerome ^a   Pappas, George J ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive algorithms; coverage control problems; dynamic vehicle routing problems; partitioning algorithms; potential field based motion planning; stochastic gradient descent algorithms

Indexed keywords

COVERAGE CONTROL; DYNAMIC VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS; PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS; POTENTIAL FIELD; STOCHASTIC GRADIENT DESCENT ALGORITHM;

OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTICS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84874600261     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2012.2215512     Document Type: Article

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