Exerting human control over decentralized robot swarms

ICARA 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 566-571

  Kira, Zsolt ^a   Potter, Mitchell A ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; EVOLUTIONARY LEARNING; GENERALIZED MODELS; HUMAN CONTROL; HUMAN OPERATOR; INSTANCE BASED LEARNING; LEARNING METHODS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; PARAMETER SPACES; REAL TIME; ROBOT SWARMS; SWARM MEMBERS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; VIRTUAL AGENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EDUCATION; REAL TIME CONTROL;

ROBOTS;

EID: 66149167421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARA.2000.4803934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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