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Citation
Rigelsford, J. (2003), "A cooperative search controller", Industrial Robot, Vol. 30 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/ir.2003.04930bad.013
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
A cooperative search controller
A cooperative search controller
Keywords: Robots, Sandia Corp., Patents
Applicant: Sandia Corporation, USAPatent number: US6,408,226Publication date: 18 June 2002Title: Cooperative System and Method Using Mobile Robots for Testing a Cooperative Search Controller
This patent claims a cooperative system using a large number of mobile robots for testing a source localisation controller to locate a source in a test area. Each mobile robot comprises a sensor, a communication device, a processor, and a memory.
The multiple robots share information and communicate over a communication network. A camera system observes the robots in the test area, and interfacing with a base station in communication with each robot.
Jon Rigelsford