Parallel learning in heterogeneous multi-robot Swarms

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3839-3846

  Pugh, Jim ^a,b   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; MANUFACTURING VARIATIONS; ROBOTIC CONTROLLERS; ROBOTIC SENSORS;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 55749087124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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