Formica ex machina: Ant swarm foraging from physical to virtual and back again

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7461 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 252-259

  Hecker, Joshua P ^a   Letendre, Kenneth ^a,b   Stolleis, Karl ^a   Washington, Daniel ^a   Moses, Melanie E ^a,b  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; FORMICA; IN-SILICO; PHEROMONE COMMUNICATION; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REAL ROBOT; RF-ID TAGS; ROBOT TEAMS; ROBOTIC SWARMS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; SINGLE ROBOTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MELAMINE FORMALDEHYDE RESINS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84866419793     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32650-9_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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