Optimization of stochastic strategies for spatially inhomogeneous robot swarms: A case study in commercial pollination

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 3923-3930

  Berman, Spring ^a   Nagpal, Radhika ^a   Halász, Ádám ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTINUOUS MODELS; DISCRETIZATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; EXPECTED TIME; GLOBAL OBJECTIVE; MODEL PARAMETERS; POPULATION SIZES; RANDOM MOTIONS; ROBOT CONTROLS; ROBOT MOTION; ROBOT SWARMS; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SCALABLE APPROACH; SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION METHODS; TRANSITION CONTROL;

OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROBOTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455175358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048378     Document Type: Conference Paper

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