Simulating multi-million-robot ensembles

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1006-1013

  Ashley Rollman, Michael P ^a   Pillai, Padmanabhan ^b   Goodstein, Michelle L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; MODULAR ROBOTICS; MULTITHREADED; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; PHYSICS ENGINE; PROTOTYPE HARDWARE; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; SOFTWARE EXECUTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84871122518     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5979807     Document Type: Conference Paper

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