Development of an immunology-based multi-robot coordination algorithm for exploration and mapping domains

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2735-2739

  Thayer, Scott M ^a   Singh, Surya P N ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); IMMUNOLOGY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MOTION CONTROL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS;

DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS ARCHITECTURE; HUMAN IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILOROBOTS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0036453911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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