Particle swarm-based olfactory guided search

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-287

  Marques, Lino ^a,b   Nunes, Urbano ^a,b,c,d,e   De Almeida, A T ^a,b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c IEEE   (Portugal)

^d ICAR   (Portugal)

^e Program Committees of International Conferences   (Portugal)

^f Institute for Systems and Robotics   (Portugal)

^g European Commission Framework Programmes   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cooperative robotics; Olfactive search; Particle swarm optimization

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE ROBOTICS; OLFACTIVE SEARCH; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33745298950     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-7567-0     Document Type: Article

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