Using robots to understand social behaviour

Biological Reviews

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-39

  Mitri, Sara ^a   Wischmann, Steffen ^b   Floreano, Dario ^b   Keller, Laurent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Collective behaviour; Individual based model (IBM); Model; Robot; Simulation; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84871817195     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2012.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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