Evolution of self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6234 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 155-166

  Sperati, Valerio ^a   Trianni, Vito ^a   Nolfi, Stefano ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENT PROPERTY; EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS; OPTIMISATIONS; PATH FORMATION; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SELF-ORGANISED; SWARM OF ROBOTS; VISUAL INTERACTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78049232340     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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