Experimental studies of swarm robotic chemical plume tracing using computational fluid dynamics simulations

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 631-671

  Zarzhitsky, Dimitri V ^a   Spears, Diana F ^b   Thayer, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Swarmotics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical hazards; Fluid dynamics; Localization; Robotics; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE CHEMICALS; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED METHODS; CHEMICAL HAZARDS; CHEMICAL PLUME TRACING; CHEMICAL PLUMES; CHEMICAL SOURCES; COLLABORATIVE CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EMPIRICAL SIMULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENT TESTS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAULT-TOLERANT; FLUID CONDITIONS; LOCAL INFORMATION; LOCALIZATION; LOW POWER; MULTIROBOTS; NUMERICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PHYSICS-BASED; PROCESSING CAPABILITY; REACTIVE CONTROL; SIMULATION; SOURCE LOCALIZATION; SWARM ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUIDS; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649761730     PISSN: 1756378X     EISSN: 17563798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17563781011094205     Document Type: Article

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