Emergent flocking with low-end 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 424-431

  Moeslinger, Christoph ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^a   Crailsheim, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

emergent behaviour; flocking; swarm robots

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE SENSORS; EMERGENT BEHAVIOURS; FLOCKING; FLOCKING ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; REAL ROBOT; SWARM ROBOTS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 78049319404     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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