Superlinear physical performances in a swarm-bot

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3630 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 282-291

  Mondada, Francesco ^a   Bonani, Michael ^a   Guignard, André ^a   Magnenat, Stéphane ^a   Studer, Christian ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOT INTERACTIONS; ROBOTIC ENTITIES; SUPERLINEAR PHYSICAL PERFORMANCES; SWARM-BOT PERFORMANCES;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE ROBOTS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33645992081     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11553090_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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