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Role of Cooperation in Multi-robot Systems

April 2015

DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.2910.6720

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King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Keynote speech I gave in the International Conference on Industry Academia Collaboration (IAC2014). This talk provides well-grounded and informative answers to questions like: • Wh t th i f t f lti b t t (MRS)? What are the main features of multirobot systems (MRS)? • What are the challenging problems of MRS? • How to achieve different forms of cooperation in MRS?

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