Collective energy homeostasis in a large-scale microrobotic swarm

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1090-1101

  Kernbach, Serge ^a   Kernbach, Olga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy; Energy efficiency; Robotics; Self sufficiency; Swarm

Indexed keywords

DOCKING STATION; ENERGY; ENERGY HOMEOSTASIS; LOW ENERGIES; LOW-ENERGY STATE; MICROROBOTS; SELF-SUFFICIENCY; SWARM; SWARM ROBOTS;

DOCKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 80053570604     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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