An exploration of online parallel learning in heterogeneous multi-robot swarms

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 177, Issue , 2009, Pages 133-151

  Pugh, Jim ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 78049257848     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89933-4_7     Document Type: Article

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