Reliable multi-robot coordination using minimal communication and neural prediction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2466, Issue , 2002, Pages 36-51

  Buck, Sebastian ^a   Schmitt, Thorsten ^a   Beetz, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS;

COMMUNICATION CAPABILITIES; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; COORDINATED BEHAVIOR; COORDINATION MECHANISMS; DYNAMICAL MODEL; MULTI-ROBOT APPLICATION; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION; NEURAL PREDICTION;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84949504188     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-37724-7_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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