Autonomous reconfiguration in a self-assembling multi-robot system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5217 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 259-266

  O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; OPTIMIZATION; ROBOT LEARNING; ROBOTICS;

AUTONOMOUS RECONFIGURATIONS; CONTROL PROGRAMS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROLS; MORPHO-LOGIES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; PHYSICAL STRUCTURES; REAL ROBOTS; ROBOT COMMUNICATIONS; SPECIFIC TASKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 56449119679     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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