A pheromone-guided mobile robot that behaves like a silkworm moth with living antennae as pheromone sensors

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 924-933

  Kuwana, Yoshihiko ^a,b   Shimoyama, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOSENSORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

PHEROMONE-GUIDED MOBILE ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0032165556     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/027836499801700902     Document Type: Article

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