Optimum gripper using ant colony intelligence

Industrial Robot

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-23

  Zitar, R A Abu ^a  

^a PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Insects; Intelligence; Optimization techniques; Robotics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRIPPERS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS;

INSECTS; INTELLIGENCE; NONLINEAR COMPLEMENTARITY APPROACH (NCP); OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 18844433793     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910510573246     Document Type: Article

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