ARGoS: A modular, parallel, multi-engine simulator for multi-robot systems

Swarm Intelligence

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 271-295

  Pinciroli, Carlo ^a   Trianni, Vito ^b   O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Pini, Giovanni ^a   Brutschy, Arne ^a   Brambilla, Manuele ^a   Mathews, Nithin ^a   Ferrante, Eliseo ^a   Di Caro, Gianni ^c   Ducatelle, Frederick ^c   Birattari, Mauro ^a   Gambardella, Luca Maria ^c   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ARGoS; High performance; Multi robot systems; Simulation; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ARGOS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SIMULATION; SWARM ROBOTICS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; ROBOT LEARNING; SIMULATORS;

MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

EID: 84871173542     PISSN: 19353812     EISSN: 19353820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11721-012-0072-5     Document Type: Article

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