Alice in pheromone land: An experimental setup for the study of ant-like robots

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 37-44

  Garnier, Simon ^a   Tâche, Fabien ^b   Combe, Maud ^a   Grimal, Anne ^a   Theraulaz, Guy ^a  

^a Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANT-LIKE ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL NETWORKS; COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; PATH SELECTION;

MOTION PLANNING;

EID: 34548798729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIS.2007.368024     Document Type: Conference Paper

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