Building a loose wall structure with a robotic swarm using a spatio-temporal varying template

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 712-716

  Stewart, Robert L ^a   Russell, R Andrew ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Building; Construction; Multi agent control; Robotics; Structure; Template

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; CONTROL THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; ROBOTICS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

LOOSE WALL STRUCTURE; MULTI-AGENT CONTROL; SWARM-BASED ROBOTICS; TEMPLATE;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 14044252896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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