Two different approaches to a macroscopic model of a bio-inspired robotic swarm

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 913-921

  Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Hamann, Heiko ^a,b   Wörn, Heinz ^b   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bio inspired robotics; Macroscopic modeling; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; BIO-INSPIRED; BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS; DIFFUSION PROCESS; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL ALGORITHMS; FEED-BACK LOOP; FLOW MODEL; MACROSCOPIC MODEL; MACROSCOPIC MODELING; MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; MODEL-BASED; MODELING TECHNIQUE; PREDICTION QUALITY; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; SWARM BEHAVIOR; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHMS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 68749094995     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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