Get in touch: Cooperative decision making based on robot-to-robot collisions

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-155

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Thenius, Ronald ^a   Moeslinger, Christoph ^b   Radspieler, Gerald ^a   Kernbach, Serge ^c   Szymanski, Marc ^d   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b St Poelten University of Applied Sciences   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collective decision; Heterogeneous environment; Honey bees; Swarm intelligence; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 58049135524     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: 15737454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10458-008-9058-5     Document Type: Article

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