Modeling and mathematical analysis of swarms of microscopic robots

Proceedings - 2005 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 209-216

  Galstyan, Aram ^a   Hogg, Tad ^b   Lerman, Kristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BLOODSTREAM; MICROSCOPIC ROBOTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 33745765882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIS.2005.1501623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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