Sensor network-mediated multi-robot task allocation

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 27-38

  Batalin, Maxim A ^a   Sukhatme, Gaurav S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed; Mobile robots; Sensor networks; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOT LEARNING; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS; DISTRIBUTED; DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTS; ITS APPLICATIONS; MULTI-ROBOT TASK ALLOCATION; NETWORKED SENSORS; TASK ALLOCATION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84903484681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3389-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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