SWARM-BOT: From Concept to Implementation

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1626-1631

  Mondada, Francesco ^a   Guignard, André ^a   Bonani, Michael ^a   Bär, Daniel ^a   Lauria, Michel ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; ROBOTIC ARMS;

SELF RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0347409489     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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