Bio-inspired group behaviors for the deployment of a swarm of robots to multiple destinations

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2318-2323

  Berman, Spring ^a   Halász, Ádám ^a   Kumar, Vijay ^a   Pratt, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID CONTROLLERS; MACROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; ROBOTIC SWARMS;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DYNAMIC MODELS; SWITCHES;

ROBOTS;

EID: 36348979878     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2007.363665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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