Effectiveness of tuning of pheromone trail lifetime in attraction of robot swarm

2011 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 702-707

  Fujisawa, Ryusuke ^a   Shimizu, Yusuke ^b   Matsuno, Fumitoshi ^c  

^a HACHINOHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT METHOD; DURATION TIME; FOOD QUANTITY; PHEROMONE TRAILS; ROBOT SWARMS; SWARM BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84857533340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SII.2011.6147534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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