Efficient multi-foraging in swarm robotics

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

Volumn 4648 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 696-705

  Campo, Alexandre ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Mathematical modelling; Multi foraging; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTS;

DECISION ALGORITHM; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MULTI FORAGING; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 38049062604     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_70     Document Type: Conference Paper

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