Morphology control in a multirobot system

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 18-25

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Collective robotics; Morphology control; Self assembly; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MOBILE ROBOTS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 39849095862     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/M-RA.2007.908970     Document Type: Article

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