Collective perception in a swarm of autonomous robots

ICEC 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 51-59

  Morlino, Giuseppe ^a   Trianni, Vito ^a   Tuci, Elio ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Collective behaviour; Evolutionary algorithms; Perceptual discrimination; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTONOMOUS ROBOT; BLACK SPOT; COGNITIVE ABILITY; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR; EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS; LOCAL INFORMATION; PERCEPTUAL DISCRIMINATION; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SELF-ORGANISING; SWARM ROBOTICS;

DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78751523496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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