Dynamic task assignment in robot swarms

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 129-136

  McLurkin, James ^a   Yamins, Daniel ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ROBOTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CONSTANT TIME; DETERMINISTIC ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC TASKS; HOMOGENOUS ROBOTS; PERFORMANCE DATA; RANDOM CHOICE; RUNNING TIME; TASK DISTRIBUTION;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84959516283     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.15607/rss.2005.i.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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