Self-organised recruitment in a heteregeneous swarm

2009 International Conference on Advanced Robotics, ICAR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pinciroli, Carlo ^a   O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL ROBOTS; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; DIFFERENT SIZES; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC RULES; SELF-ORGANISED; SELF-ORGANIZED; STEADY-STATE DISTRIBUTIONS; WHEELED ROBOT;

EMPLOYMENT; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 70449418035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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