On the dynamics of clustering systems

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-27

  Kazadi, S ^a  

^a Jisan Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Puck clustering; Swarm engineering; Swarm mediated construction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOTION PLANNING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SIZE DETERMINATION;

PUCK CLUSTERING SYSTEMS; SWARM-MEDIATED CONSTRUCTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0346910188     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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