Terrain coverage with ant robots: A simulation study

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 600-607

  Koenig, S ^a   Liu, Y ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi agent coordination; Multi agent simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTS;

MULTI-AGENT COORDINATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034833403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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