Adaptive Division of Labor in Large-Scale Minimalist Multi-Robot Systems

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1969-1974

  Jones, Chris ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE SENSORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; ROBOTICS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 0347409464     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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