Enhanced directional self-assembly based on active recruitment and guidance

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4762-4769

  Mathews, Nithin ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^b   O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Rétornaz, Philippe ^c   Bonani, Michael ^c   Mondada, Francesco ^c   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF PARALLELISM; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH-SPEED COMMUNICATIONS; HYBRID TECHNOLOGY; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; RELATIVE POSITIONING; ROBOTIC HARDWARE; SELF-ASSEMBLING;

COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MORPHOLOGY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84455175238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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