A decentralized approach to cooperative situation assessment in multi-robot systems

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 32-39

  Settembre, Giuseppe P ^a   Scerri, Paul ^b   Farinelli, Alessandro ^c   Sycara, Katia ^b   Nardi, Daniele ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative perception; Robotics; Situation assessment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CENTRALIZED APPROACHES; COMMUNICATION BANDWIDTH; COOPERATIVE PERCEPTION; COOPERATIVE SENSING; DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SENSOR INFORMATIONS; SITUATION ASSESSMENT;

COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84899935042     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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