Gradual spatial pattern formation of homogeneous robot group

Information Sciences

Volumn 171, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 431-445

  Ikemoto, Yusuke ^a   Hasegawa, Yasuhisa ^b   Fukuda, Toshio ^a   Matsuda, Kazuhiko ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous robot; Function differentiation; Homogeneous system; Pattern formation; Turing diffusion driven instability

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ROBOTIC SYSTEMS (CEBOT); FUNCTION DIFFERENTIATION; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEMS; PATTERN FORMATION; TURING DIFFUSION-DRIVEN INSTABILITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTIVITY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ROBOTS;

EID: 16444384405     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2004.09.013     Document Type: Article

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