Open E-puck range & bearing miniaturized board for local communication in swarm robotics

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3111-3116

  Gutiérrez, Álvaro ^a   Campo, Alexandre ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^b   Donate, Jesus ^c   Monasterio Huelin, Félix ^a   Magdalena, Luis ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c RBZ Robot Design SL   (Spain)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SOFT COMPUTING   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DETECTORS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

INFRA-RED SENSOR; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; OPEN HARDWARE; RELATIVE LOCALIZATION; SCALABLE COMMUNICATION; SOFTWARE LIBRARIES; SWARM ROBOTICS;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 70350418460     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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