Safety in numbers: Fault-tolerance in robot swarms

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-37

  Winfield, Alan F T ^a   Nembrini, Julien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Reliability; Safety; Swarm engineering; Swarm intelligence; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ENGINEERING IMPLEMENTATION; FAILURE MODE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; RELIABILITY MODELLING; SAFETY CERTIFICATION; SAFETY IN NUMBERS; SWARM ENGINEERING; SWARM ROBOTICS;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 41549166619     PISSN: 17466172     EISSN: 17466180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2006.008645     Document Type: Article

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