Gradient ascent with a group of minimalist real robots: Implementing secondary swarming

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 509-514

  Melhuish, Chris ^a   Welsby, Jason ^a   Greenway, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Collective behaviour; Minimalist; Swarming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SECONDARY SWARMING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0036977006     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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