Cooperative self-organization in a heterogeneous swarm robotic system

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 87-94

  Ducatelle, Frederick ^a   Di Caro, Gianni A ^a   Gambardella, Luca M ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ant foraging; Self organization; Swarm intelligence; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANT FORAGING; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; EVOLVABLE HARDWARE; FLYING ROBOTS; FORAGING TASK; KEY COMPONENT; MUTUAL ADAPTATION; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SUB-SWARMS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SWARM ROBOTICS; TARGET LOCATION; WHEELED ROBOT;

CELLULAR AUTOMATA; EYE MOVEMENTS; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 77955869805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1830483.1830501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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