Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism

By Tucker Balch

This is a comprehensive volume on robot teams that will be the standard reference on multi-robot systems. The volume provides not only the essentials of multi-agent robotics theory but also descriptions of exemplary implemented systems demonstrating the key concepts of multi-robot research. Information is presented in a descriptive manner and augmented with detailed mathematical formulations, photos, diagrams, and source code examples.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568811551
• ISBN13: 9781568811550
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: A K PETERS
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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Enhanced with detailed mathematical formulations

Robot research and development long ago left the realm of science fiction speculation to enter the real world of laboratory science, industrial factory production, space exploration, and even popular entertainment as exemplified by such popular television series as "Robot Wars". In Robot Teams: From Diversity To Polymorphism, Tucker Balch (Carnegie-Mellon University) effectively collaborated with Lynne E. Parker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) to compile a wealth of up-to-date and cutting edge information, issues, and techniques of multi-robot systems. The reader is provided with all of the essentials of multi-agent robotics theory, descriptions of exemplary implemented systems, and demonstrations of key concepts with respect to multi-robot research. Robot Teams is enhanced with detailed mathematical formulations, photos, diagrams, source code examples, and a forty-four page bibliography for further and more detailed study. Robert Teams is an essential, indispensable, core volume for any professional or academic Robotics Studies program or reference collection.