Autonomous morphogenesis in self-assembling robots using IR-based sensing and local communications

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

Volumn 6234 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 107-118

  Liu, Wenguo ^a   Winfield, Alan F T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALISED; GRAPH-BASED; LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS; LOCAL SENSING; MORPHOLOGY CONTROL; RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES; SELF-ASSEMBLING ROBOTS; TARGET STRUCTURE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; MORPHOLOGY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78049281010     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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