On fault tolerance and scalability of swarm robotic systems

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 83 STAR, Issue , 2012, Pages 431-444

  Bjerknes, Jan Dyre ^a   Winfield, Alan F T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGENT PROPERTY; SELF-ORGANISING; SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; SWARM SIZE; SWARM SYSTEMS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TEAM WORK;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 84870739057     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_31     Document Type: Conference Paper

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