LIVS: Local Interaction via Virtual Stigmergy coordination in distributed search and collective cleanup

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1371-1376

  Meng, Yan ^a,b   Gan, Jing ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MECHANISMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

LOCAL INTERACTIONS; STIGMERGY;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 51449099599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2007.4399254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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