Cooperative hole avoidance in a swarm-bot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-103

  Trianni, Vito ^a   Nolfi, Stefano ^b,c   Dorigo, Marco ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c Lab of Artificial Life and Robotics   (Italy)

^d FNRS   (Belgium)

^e Laboratory of Artificial Life and Robotics ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolutionary robotics; Swarm intelligence; Swarm robotics; Swarm bot

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARM ROBOTICS; SWARM-BOT;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CONNECTORS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 30944441110     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2005.09.018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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