Performance benefits of self-assembly in a swarm-bot

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2381-2387

  O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Groß, Roderich ^a,b   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a   Mondada, Francesco ^c   Bonani, Michael ^c   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

SELF- ASSEMBLIES;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 51349144019     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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