Biologically inspired decision making for collective robotic systems

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 375-380

  Parker, Chris A C ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COLLECTIVE RELOCATION PROBLEM; COLLECTIVE ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; DECISION QUOROM THRESHOLD; ROBOCUP ROBOTIC SOCCER TEAM;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 14044259444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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