Robot collective construction by blind bulldozing

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 59-63

  Parker, Christopher ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL; FINITE AUTOMATA; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTICS;

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 0036978712     PISSN: 08843627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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