Pheromone communication in a robot swarm: Necrophoric bee behaviour and its replication

Robotica

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 731-742

  Purnamadjaja, Anies Hannawati ^a   Russell, R Andrew ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Necrophoric behaviour; Pheromone communication; Robot swarms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

NECROPHORIC BEHAVIOUR; PHEROMONE COMMUNICATION; PHYSICAL ROBOTIC SYSTEM; ROBOT SWARM;

ROBOTS;

EID: 27744577596     PISSN: 02635747     EISSN: 14698668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0263574704001225     Document Type: Article

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