Task partitioning in swarms of robots: Reducing performance losses due to interference at shared resources

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 85 LNEE, Issue , 2011, Pages 217-228

  Pini, Giovanni ^a   Brutschy, Arne ^a   Birattari, Mauro ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ACCESS; LARGE GROUPS; PERFORMANCE LOSS; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SHARED RESOURCES; SIMPLE METHOD; SWARM OF ROBOTS; TASK PARTITIONING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE; ROBOTS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79953119137     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19730-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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