A review of probabilistic macroscopic models for swarm robotic systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3342, Issue , 2005, Pages 143-152

  Lerman, Kristina ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^b   Galstyan, Aram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED MANIPULATION; MACROSCOPIC MODELING; STOCHASTIC COMPONENTS; SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 23944431957     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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