Enhanced connectivity maintenance for multi-robot systems

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 319-324

  Sabattini, Lorenzo ^a   Gasparri, Andrea ^b   Secchi, Cristian ^a   Chopra, Nikhil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MAINTENANCE; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

COMMUNICATION GRAPHS; CONNECTIVITY MAINTENANCE; CONTROL ACTIONS; CONTROL EFFORT; CONTROL LAWS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL LAW; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIROBOTS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL;

EID: 84881016563     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20120905-3-HR-2030.00030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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