Stability investigation of a robotic swarm with limited field of view

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Volumn 17, Issue 1 PART 1, 2008, Pages

  Etemadi, Shahram ^a   Alasty, Aria ^a   Vossoughi, Gholamreza ^a  

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Author keywords

Swarm behaviour and multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

FIELD OF VIEWS; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; INTERACTIVE FORCES; LYAPUNOV ANALYSIS; QUASI-STATIC; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SWARM BEHAVIOUR AND MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS; SWARM MEMBERS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 79961018827     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20080706-5-KR-1001.4139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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