Guiding a robot flock via informed robots

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 215-225

  Çelikkanat, Hande ^a   Turgut, Ali Emre ^a   Sahin, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS;

AVOIDING OBSTACLE; FREE SPACES; SIMULATED ROBOT; SWARM OF ROBOTS;

SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84868374788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00644-9_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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