The SWARM-BOTS project

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3342, Issue , 2005, Pages 31-44

  Dorigo, Marco ^a   Tuci, Elio ^a   Groß, Roderich ^a   Trianni, Vito ^a   Labella, Thomas Halva ^a   Nouyan, Shervin ^a   Ampatzis, Christos ^a   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^a   Baldassarre, Gianluca ^b   Nolfi, Stefano ^b   Mondada, Francesco ^c   Floreano, Dario ^c   Gambardella, Luca Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

DISTRIBUTED ADAPTIVE CONTROLLERS; ROBOT PROTOTYPES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 23944461130     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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15. To appear in the 7th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS04), June 23-25, 2004, Toulouse, France.
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