Biologically inspired confinement of multi-robot systems

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 213-224

  Haque, Musad A ^a   Rahmani, Amir R ^a   Egerstedt, Magnus B ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologically inspired design; Foraging robots; Multi agent coordination; Perpetual Confinement

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); GROUND VEHICLES; MACHINE DESIGN; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

BIOLOGICAL MODELS; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED; BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED DESIGN; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; ENGINEERED DEVICES; MULTI-AGENT COORDINATIONS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861877795     PISSN: 17580366     EISSN: 17580374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIC.2011.041145     Document Type: Article

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