Enabling autonomous sensor-sharing for tightly-coupled cooperative tasks

Multi-Robot Systems. From Swarms to Intelligent Automata - Proceedings from the 2005 International Workshop on Multi-Robot Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 119-130

  Parker, Lynne E ^a   Chandra, Maureen ^a   Tang, Fang ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous teams; Multi robot coalitions; Sensor sharing

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING;

AUTONOMOUS SENSORS; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE TASKS; HETEROGENEOUS TEAMS; INFORMATION TYPES; MULTIROBOTS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SENSOR INFORMATIONS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84903467342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3389-3_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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