On foraging strategies for large-scale multi-robot systems

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2717-2723

  Shell, Dylan A ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

FORAGING TASK; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SPATIAL ARBITRATION STRATEGIES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34250644280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2006.281996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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