Glowworm-inspired robot swarm for simultaneous taxis towards multiple radiation sources

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 958-963

  Krishnanand, K N ^a   Amruth, P ^a   Guruprasad, M H ^a   Bidargaddi, Sharschchandra V ^a   Ghose, D ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SPILLS; LUMINESCENCE; OPTIMIZATION;

ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); GLOWWORM ALGORITHMS; LOCAL-DECISION DOMAIN; MULTIPLE SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33751377078     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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