Specialization and generalization of robot behaviour in swarm energy foraging

Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 131-152

  Kernbach, Serge ^a   Nepomnyashchikh, Valentin A ^b   Kancheva, Tanya ^a   Kernbach, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b PAPANIN INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF INLAND WATERS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

collective strategies; energy foraging; kinetic models; robot swarm; swarm efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053560159     PISSN: 13873954     EISSN: 17445051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13873954.2011.601421     Document Type: Article

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