Antbots: A feasible visual emulation of pheromone trails for swarm robots

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

Volumn 6234 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 84-94

  Mayet, Ralf ^a   Roberz, Jonathan ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

ant foraging; biomimicry; pheromone trails; swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ANT FORAGING; BIO MIMICRIES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FOOD SOURCES; PATHFINDING; PHEROMONE TRAILS; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; SINGLE ROBOTS; SWARM ROBOTICS; SWARM ROBOTS;

BIOMIMETICS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78049236528     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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