Ant-inspired sorting by robots: The importance of initial clustering

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 235-242

  Melhuish, Chris ^a   Sendova Franks, Ana B ^a   Scholes, Sam ^a   Horsfield, Ian ^a   Welsby, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant; Brood sorting; Density cue; Puck sorting; Robot

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ENGINEERING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION MIGRATION; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION;

FORMICIDAE; TEMNOTHORAX;

EID: 33645804431     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2005.0081     Document Type: Article

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