Self-assembly on demand in a group of physical autonomous mobile robots navigating rough terrain

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

Volumn 3630 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 272-281

  O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Groß, Roderich ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Bonani, Michael ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; FUNCTIONAL SELF-ASSEMBLY; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; ROUGH TERRAIN;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 33646011213     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11553090_28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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