Artificial physics for mobile robot formations

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2287-2292

  Spears, William M ^a   Heil, Rodney ^a   Zarzhitsky, Dimitri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial physics; Moving formations; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL PHYSICS; MOVING FORMATIONS; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ROBOTICS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 27944433381     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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