Towards energy optimization: Emergent task allocation in a swarm of foraging robots

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-305

  Wenguo Liu, ^a   Winfield, Alan F T ^a   Jin Sa, ^a   Jie Chen, ^b   Lihua Dou, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Emergent division of labor; Swarm foraging; Swarm robotics; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548157809     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712307082088     Document Type: Article

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