Coordinating microscopic robots in viscous fluids

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-305

  Hogg, Tad ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiagent robot control design; Nanomedicine; Nanotechnology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247554980     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-006-9004-3     Document Type: Article

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