Collective construction of environmentally-adaptive structures

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2345-2352

  Werfel, Justin ^a   Ingber, Donald ^b   Nagpal, Radhika ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKS; DECENTRALIZED ALGORITHMS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51349158069     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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