Adaptive multi-robot bucket brigade foraging

Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, ALIFE 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 337-342

  Lein, Adam ^a   Vaughan, Richard T ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKET BRIGADES; MULTIROBOTS; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL INTERFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 74549140550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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