A collective robotic architecture in search and rescue scenarios

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 64-69

  Couceiro, Micael S ^a   Portugal, David ^a   Rocha, Rui P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Collective architecture; Distributed multi robot systems; Group configurations

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; DISTRIBUTED GROUPS; DISTRIBUTED MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED SOLUTIONS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GROUP CONFIGURATIONS; MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; SEARCH AND RESCUE;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84877981889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2480362.2480377     Document Type: Conference Paper

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