Establishing spatially targeted communication in a heterogeneous robot swarm

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 939-946

  Mathews, N ^a   Christensen, A L ^b   Ferrante, E ^a   O'Grady, R ^a   Dorigo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Communication protocol; Heterogeneous swarms; Situated communication; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBOTICS;

COMMUNICATION MODALITIES; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS ROBOT SWARMS; HETEROGENEOUS SWARMS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; ONE-TO-ONE COMMUNICATION; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78049304274     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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