Directed stigmergy-based control for multi-robot systems

HRI 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 223-230

  Steele Jr , Fitzgerald ^a   Thomas, Geb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Multi robot; Robotics; Stigmergy; Supervisory control; Swarm; User interface

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPLOSIVES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MULTI-ROBOTS; STIGMERGY; SUPERVISORY CONTROL;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 34548238667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228716.1228747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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