Sliding autonomy for complex coordinated multi-robot tasks: Analysis and experiments

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-24

  Heger, Frederik W ^a   Singh, Sanjiv ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CONTROL THEORY; COORDINATION REACTIONS; EFFICIENCY; MARKOV PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; REMOTE CONTROL; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH-PRECISION; HUMAN CONTROL; LARGE STRUCTURES; OPERATOR WORKLOAD; SHARED CONTROL; SLIDING AUTONOMY;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84959288253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.15607/rss.2006.ii.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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