Modelling a wireless connected swarm of mobile robots

Swarm Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 241-266

  Winfield, Alan F T ^a   Liu, Wenguo ^a   Nembrini, Julien ^b   Martinoli, Alcherio ^b  

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

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Modelling; Swarm robotics; Wireless ad hoc network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM CORRECTNESSES; MACROSCOPIC; MEASURED DATUM; MODELLING; NETWORK CONNECTIVITIES; PARAMETER OPTIMISATION; PREDICTIVE POWERS; PROBABILISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINES; STATE TRANSITION PROBABILITIES; STEP BY STEPS; SWARM ROBOTICS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORK;

AD HOC NETWORKS; MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 54249107147     PISSN: 19353812     EISSN: 19353820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11721-008-0018-0     Document Type: Article

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