Re-embodiment of honeybee aggregation behavior in an artificial micro-robotic system

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 237-259

  Kernbach, Serge ^a   Thenius, Ronald ^b   Kernbach, Olga ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggregation behavior; Biologically inspired algorithms; Embodiment; Micro robotic swarm; Sensor actor couplings

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; JASMINUM;

EID: 68749099816     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712309104966     Document Type: Article

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