Instantaneous actions vs. Full a synchronicity: Controlling and coordinating a set of autonomous mobile robots

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

Volumn 2202, Issue , 2001, Pages 154-171

  Prencipe, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computability; Distributed coordination; Distributed models; Mobile robots

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; MOBILE ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; COMPUTABILITY; DESIGN OF ALGORITHMS; DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; MOBILE UNITS; ROBOTIC DESIGN;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 84962897455     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45446-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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