Multi-robot Markov random fields

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1189-1192

  Butterfield, Jesse ^a   Jenkins, Odest Chadwicke ^a   Gerkey, Brian ^b  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief propagation; Markov random field; Multi robot task allocation

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; RANDOM VARIABLES; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

BELIEF PROPAGATION; DISTRIBUTED ROBOTS; LOCAL OBSERVATIONS; MARKOV RANDOM FIELD; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; MULTI-ROBOT TASK ALLOCATION; PAIRWISE INTERACTION;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 84899961097     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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