Moving swarm formations through obstacle fields

Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI'05

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 97-103

  Hettiarachchi, Suranga ^a   Spears, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial physics; Formations; Obstacle fields

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL PHYSICS; FORMATIONS; GENERALIZED FORCES; METRICS OF PERFORMANCE; MOVING FORMATIONS; OBSTACLE FIELDS; SELF-ORGANIZE; SWARM FORMATIONS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 60749130772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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