An overview of physicomimetics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3342, Issue , 2005, Pages 84-97

  Spears, William M ^a   Spears, Diana F ^a   Heil, Rodney ^a   Kerr, Wesley ^a   Hettiarachchi, Suranga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED SENSING TASKS; PHYSICOMIMETICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 23944506133     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30552-1_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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