Game theory-based negotiation for multiple robots task allocation

Robotica

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 923-934

  Cui, Rongxin ^a   Guo, Ji ^b   Gao, Bo ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cooperative control; Game theory; Multiple robots; Negotiation; Pareto optimization; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; MULTIPLE ROBOT; NEGOTIATION; PARETO-OPTIMIZATION; TASK ALLOCATION;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 84881338994     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574713000192     Document Type: Article

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