Stochastic strategies for a swarm robotic assembly system

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1953-1958

  Matthey, Löic ^a   Berman, Spring ^b   Kumar, Vijay ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT LEVELS; AGGREGATE BEHAVIOR; ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS; FAST CONVERGENCE; PHYSICS-BASED; REAL TIME; ROBOT CONTROLLER; SCALABLE APPROACH; STOCHASTIC CONTROL POLICY; SWARM OF ROBOTS; SWARM ROBOTICS; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

ABSTRACTING; GRAFTING (CHEMICAL); ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY;

EID: 70350367577     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152457     Document Type: Conference Paper

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