Using optimal foraging models to evaluate learned robotic foraging behavior

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 213-222

  Ulam, Patrick ^a,b   Balch, Tucker ^a,c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging; Multi robot systems; Optimal foraging; Reinforcement learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344274701     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105971230401200307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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