Optical networking in a swarm of microrobots

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 3 LNICST, Issue , 2009, Pages 107-119

  Corradi, Paolo ^a   Schmickl, Thomas ^b   Scholz, Oliver ^c,d   Menciassi, Arianna ^a   Dario, Paolo ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^d SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Micro optics; Microrobotics; Optical communication; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

BIO-INSPIRED; EMERGENT BEHAVIORS; INFORMATION NETWORKING; INTER-ROBOT COMMUNICATION; MICRO ROBOTICS; MICROROBOTS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION MODULE; OPTICAL NETWORKING; SELF-ORGANIZING BEHAVIOR; SEMI-AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; SUITABLE SOLUTIONS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARM SYSTEMS; WORKING PRINCIPLES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79957445530     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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