The I-SWARM project: Intelligent small world autonomous robots for micro-manipulation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3342, Issue , 2005, Pages 70-83

  Seyfried, Jörg ^a   Szymanski, Marc ^a   Bender, Natalie ^a   Estaña, Ramon ^a   Thiel, Michael ^a   Wörn, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

MICRO-MANIPULATION; MICRO-ROBOTS; ROBOT SWARMS; VERY LARGE-SCALE ARTIFICIAL SWARM (VLSAS);

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 23944460115     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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