Collective decision-making and behaviour transitions in distributed Ad Hoc wireless networks of mobile robots: Target-hunting

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2801, Issue , 2003, Pages 893-902

  Wessnitzer, Jan ^a   Melhuish, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE ROBOTS; VECTORS; DECISION MAKING; ROBOTS; WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

BEHAVIOR TRANSITIONS; COMMUNICATING AGENTS; SENSOR INFORMATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DECISION MAKING; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; COMMUNICATING AGENTS; EXPLICIT COMMUNICATION; INTERNAL STATE; MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS; TRANSITION RULE;

EID: 7444251207     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-39432-7_96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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