Supervised morphogenesis - Morphology control of ground-based self-assembling robots by aerial robots

11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2012, AAMAS 2012: Innovative Applications Track

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 464-471

  Mathews, Nithin ^a   Stranieri, Alessandro ^a   Scheidler, Alexander ^a   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Air ground systems; Multi robot systems; Robot teams; Self assembling robots; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MORPHOLOGY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

AIR/GROUND SYSTEM; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; ROBOT TEAMS; SELF-ASSEMBLING ROBOTS; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84877948356     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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