Performance of digital pheromones for swarming vehicle control

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1037-1044

  Sauter, John A ^a   Matthews, Robert ^a   Van Dyke Parunak, H ^a   Brueckner, Sven A ^a  

^a ALTARUM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Multiagent; Pheromone control; Swarming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; MULTIAGENT; PHEROMONE CONTROL; SWARMING;

DIGITAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644810857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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