Swarm-bot: Pattern formation in a swarm of self-assembling mobile robots

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 145-150

  Şahin, Erol ^a   Labella, Thomas H ^a   Trianni, Vito ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a   Rasse, Philip ^a   Floreano, Dario ^b   Gambardella, Luca ^c   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Nolfi, Stefano ^d   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ant algorithms; Mobile robot; Pattern formation; Self assembling; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; SELF ASSEMBLY;

PATTERN FORMATIONS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0036971771     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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