Multi-robot cooperation

Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision Making and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 417-459

  Fierro, Rafael ^a   Chaimowicz, Luiz ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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