Collective perception in a robot swarm

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4433 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 144-157

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Möslinger, Christoph ^b   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Karl Landsteiner University   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ROBOT SWARM; SWARM PERFORMANCE;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34748850619     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71541-2_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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