Socially-mediated negotiation for obstacle avoidance in collective transport

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 83 STAR, Issue , 2012, Pages 571-583

  Ferrante, Eliseo ^a   Brambilla, Manuele ^a   Birattari, Mauro ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE TRANSPORT; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY;

EXPERIMENTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84870756928     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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