UltraSwarm: A further step towards a flock of miniature helicopters

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

Volumn 4433 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 116-128

  De Nardi, Renzo ^a   Holland, Owen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; HELICOPTERS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

AERIAL FLOCKING; ARTIFICIAL EVOLUTION; AUTOMATED SYSTEM;

MINIATURE AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 38049169199     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71541-2_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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