Large scale multi-agent-based simulation using NetLogo for the multi-robot exploration problem

IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 325-330

  Muscalagiu, Ionel ^a   Illes, Cosmina ^a   Popa, Horia Emil ^b  

^a POLITEHNICA UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

^b WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; DISTRIBUTED CONSTRAINTS; EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS; MODELLING AND SIMULATIONS; MULTI-AGENT TECHNIQUES; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION ALGORITHMS; MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ROBOT LEARNING; TOOLS;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 84889061542     PISSN: 19354576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INDIN.2013.6622904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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