Animal and robot mixed societies: Building cooperation between microrobots and cockroaches

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 58-65

  Caprari, Gilles ^a   Colot, Alexandre ^b   Siegwart, Roland ^a   Halloy, José ^c   Deneubourg, Jean Louis ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b K TEAM SA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Basic behaviors; Complexity and control; Emergence; Gregarious animals; Insect like robots; Life control; Miniature mobile robots; Mixed society; Self organization

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; INFRARED RADIATION; MOBILE ROBOTS; MOTION CONTROL; PROXIMITY SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; COMPLEXITY AND CONTROL; INSECT-LIKE ROBOTS; MICROROBOTS; MINIATURE MOBILE ROBOTS; MIXED SOCIETY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 24944583656     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2005.1458325     Document Type: Article

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