Multiagent control of self-reconfigurable robots

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-120

  Bojinov, Hristo ^a   Casal, Arancha ^b   Hogg, Tad ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed control; Modular robots; Multiagent systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MODULAR ROBOTS; PROBABILITY;

SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036888568     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(02)00272-2     Document Type: Article

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