Analysis of local communication load in shape formation of a distributed morphogenetic swarm robotic system

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Guo, Hongliang ^a   Meng, Yan ^a   Jin, Yaochu ^b  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gene regulatory networks; local communication; morphogenesis; pattern formation; self adaptation; self organization; swarm robots

Indexed keywords

GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LOCAL COMMUNICATION; MORPHOGENESIS; PATTERN FORMATION; SELF ADAPTATION; SELF-ORGANIZATIONS; SWARM ROBOTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; GENES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN MATCHING; ROBOTICS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959434565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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