Shape factor's effect on a dynamic cleaners swarm

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multi-Agent Robotic Systems, MARS 2006, in Conjunction with ICINCO 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 13-21

  Altshuler, Yaniv ^a   Wagner, Israel A ^a,b   Bruckstein, Alfred M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING EFFICIENCY; CLEANING PROTOCOLS; CONNECTED REGION; CONTAMINATED AREAS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; IMPOSSIBILITY RESULTS; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTI AGENT; MULTI-AGENTS SYSTEMS; SHAPE FACTOR;

CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; ROBOTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953987771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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