Self-assembly strategies in a group of autonomous mobile robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 439-455

  O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Groß, Roderich ^b   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^c   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

All terrain navigation; Autonomous robots; Cooperation; Modular robots; Self assembly; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS; PERFORMANCE COSTS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REAL ROBOT; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SWARM ROBOTICS;

LANDFORMS; MODULAR ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS;

SELF ASSEMBLY;

EID: 77952011229     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-010-9177-0     Document Type: Article

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