Two formal gas models for multi-agent sweeping and obstacle avoidance

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 3228, Issue , 2004, Pages 111-130

  Kerr, Wesley ^a   Spears, Diana ^a   Spears, William ^a   Thayer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; MOBILE ROBOTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORS;

ARTIFICIAL FORCES; MULTI-AGENT SWEEPING; MULTI-ROBOT BEHAVIOR;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 26444433954     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30960-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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