Multi-robot learning with particle swarm optimization

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 441-448

  Pugh, Jim ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Multirobot systems; Particle swarm optimization; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

MULTIROBOT SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION; ROBOTIC COMMUNICATION; ROBOTIC LEARNING;

UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 34247263308     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1160633.1160715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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