Formations of minimalist mobile robots using local-templates and spatially distributed interactions

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 53, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 194-213

  Krishnanand, K N ^a   Ghose, Debasish ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Collective robotics; Emergent behavior; Group formations; Kinbots; Multi robot coordination

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; EMERGENT BEHAVIOR; GROUP FORMATIONS; KINBOTS; MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ROBOTICS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27844494621     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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