An experimental study in wireless connectivity maintenance using up to 40 robots coordinated by an institutional robotics approach

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 5073-5079

  Pereira, Jose N ^a,b   Silva, Porfirio ^b   Lima, Pedro U ^b   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGY; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; REALISTIC SIMULATORS; SPATIAL COMPACTNESS; WIRELESS CONNECTION; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84893725559     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6697090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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