An efficient stochastic clustering auction for heterogeneous robotic collaborative teams

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 72, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 541-558

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Collins Jr , Emmanuel G ^a   Barbu, Adrian ^b  

^a FLORIDA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions and market based systems; Distributed robot systems; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Networked robots; Optimal task allocation; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ROBOT SYSTEMS; MARKET-BASED SYSTEMS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; NETWORKED ROBOT; OPTIMAL TASK ALLOCATIONS;

COMMERCE; COMMUNICATION; COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84888391566     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-012-9800-8     Document Type: Article

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