An analytical and spatial model of foraging in a swarm of robots

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

Volumn 4433 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 43-55

  Hamann, Heiko ^a   Wörn, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foraging; Macroscopic model; Mathematical analysis; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MACROSCOPIC MODEL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 38049138902     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71541-2_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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