Modeling and analysis of beaconless and beacon-based policies for a swarm-intelligent inspection system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2477-2482

  Correll, Nikolaus ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Inspection; Microscopic and macroscopic models; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Performance evaluation; Swarm intelligence; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; ROBOTS; SENSORS;

MICROSCOPIC AND MACROSCOPIC MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARM ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT CONTROL;

EID: 33845669846     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2005.1570484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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