A distributed swarm intelligence based algorithm for a cooperative multi-robot construction task

2008 IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium, SIS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Meng, Yan ^a   Gan, Jing ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

BIO-INSPIRED; BUILDING BLOCKS; COLLECTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS; DYNAMIC TASK ALLOCATIONS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE ROBOTS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; ROBOT CONSTRUCTIONS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SWARM INTELLIGENCES; TARGET BLOCKS; VIRTUAL PHEROMONES;

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO);

EID: 57649198322     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SIS.2008.4668296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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