Massively multi-robot simulation in stage

Swarm Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue 2-4, 2008, Pages 189-208

  Vaughan, Richard ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multi robot; Player stage; Simulation; Stage; Swarm

Indexed keywords

C++ SOFTWARES; CODE RE-USE; CUSTOM SIMULATORS; MULTI-ROBOT; MULTIPLE MOBILE ROBOTS; PLAYER/STAGE; POPULATION SIZES; REAL TIMES; ROBOT SIMULATIONS; ROBOT SIMULATORS; RUN TIMES; SIMULATION; SWARM; SWARM ROBOTICS; UNIVERSITY TEACHINGS;

INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROBOTICS; SCALABILITY; SIMULATORS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 54249133823     PISSN: 19353812     EISSN: 19353820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11721-008-0014-4     Document Type: Article

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