Emergence of specialization in a swarm of robots

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 83 STAR, Issue , 2012, Pages 403-416

  Halász, Ádám M ^a   Liang, Yanting ^a   Hsieh, M Ani ^b   Lai, Hong Jian ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; EXCHANGE MECHANISM; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; NUMBER OF SPECIES; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PARAMETER ADJUSTMENTS; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SWARM OF ROBOTS; UNIMODAL;

ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84870764774     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-32723-0_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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