A macroscopic model for self-organized aggregation in swarm robotic systems

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

Volumn 4433 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 27-42

  Soysal, Onur ^a   Şahin, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBOTS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS;

MACROSCOPIC MODELS; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 38049184789     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71541-2_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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