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Coordination schemes for distributed boundary coverage with a swarm of miniature robots

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2016

The coordination of multi-robot systems is becoming one of the most important areas of research in robotics, mostly because it is required by numerous complex applications. These applications range from intelligent transportation systems, search and rescue ...

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