Realization of a pheromone potential field for autonomous navigation by radio frequency identification

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 13-14, 2008, Pages 1461-1478

  Herianto, ^a   Sakakibara, Toshiki ^a   Koiwa, Tomoaki ^a   Kurabayashi, Daisuke ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autonomous; Data carrier; Navigation; Pheromone; Potential field

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; RADIO NAVIGATION; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL SUBSTANCE; DATA CARRIERS; DENSITY MODELING; PHEROMONE; POTENTIAL FIELD;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 69549111387     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855308X360569     Document Type: Article

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