Collaborative coverage using a swarm of networked miniature robots
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Collaborative coverage using a swarm of networked miniature robots
We study distributed coverage of environments with unknown extension using a team of networked miniature robots analytically and experimentally. Algorithms are analyzed by incrementally raising the abstraction level starting from physical robots, to realistic and discrete-event system (DES) simulation. The realistic simulation is calibrated using sensor and actuator noise characteristics of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Robotics and Autonomous Systems
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0921-8890
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.10.023