Distributed Intelligence: Overview of the Field and its Application in Multi-Robot Systems

Journal of Physical Agents

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-14

  Parker, Lynne E ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed intelligence; Multi agent systems; Multi robot systems; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973470299     PISSN: 18880258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14198/JoPha.2008.2.1.02     Document Type: Article

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