Foraging behavior of interacting robots with virtual pheromone

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 3074-3079

  Sugawara, Ken ^a   Kazama, Toshiya ^b   Watanabe, Toshinori ^b  

^a TOHOKU GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collective behavior; Foraging; Interaction; V DEAR; Virtual pheromone

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; RADIO WAVES; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; INTERACTION; V-DEAR; VIRTUAL PHEROMONES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 14044273163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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