The cooperation of swarm-bots: Physical interactions in collective robotics

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 21-28

  Mondada, Francesco ^a   Gambardella, Luca Maria ^b   Floreano, Dario ^a   Nolfi, Stefano ^c   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^d   Dorigo, Marco ^d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Child pulling; Collective transport; Self assembling; Swarm bots

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MECHATRONICS; MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SELF ASSEMBLY;

AUTONOMOUSLY SELF-ASSEMBLING; COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTS; SWARM-BOTS; VERSATILITY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 24944482177     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2005.1458313     Document Type: Article

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