C4: A software environment for modeling self-organizing behaviors of autonomous robots and groups

Robotica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-98

  Liu, Jiming ^a   Qin, Hong ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Autonomous robot simulation; Behaviors; Self organizing; Virtual task environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MODELS; MOTION PLANNING; RAPID PROTOTYPING; ROBOT LEARNING; VISUALIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS ROBOT SIMULATION; CO EVOLVE MODULE; CONDITION MODULE; COORDINATE MODULE; CREATE MODULE; SELF ORGANIZING BEHAVIOR; TASK PLANNING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0030817732     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574797000106     Document Type: Article

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