Autonomous self-assembly in swarm-bots

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1115-1130

  Groß, Roderich ^a   Bonani, Micahel ^b   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Collective; Distributed; Modular; Reconfigurable; Self assembly; Swarm robotics; Swarm bot

Indexed keywords

GRIPPERS; MOBILE ROBOTS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AUTONOMOUS SELF-ASSEMBLY; SWARM-BOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845520078     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2006.882919     Document Type: Article

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