A mechanism to self-assemble patterns with autonomous robots

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

Volumn 4648 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 716-725

  Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a   O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISUALIZATION;

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 38049080652     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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