Self-organized flocking with a mobile robot swarm: A novel motion control method

Adaptive Behavior

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 460-477

  Ferrante, Eliseo ^a,b   Turgut, Ali Emre ^c   Huepe, Cristián ^d   Stranieri, Alessandro ^a   Pinciroli, Carlo ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Turk Hava Kurumu University   (Turkey)

^d CHUEPE LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

coordinated motion; Flocking; self organization; swarm intelligence; swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870845739     PISSN: 10597123     EISSN: 17412633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059712312462248     Document Type: Article

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