Autonomous self-assembly in a swarm-bot

Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment, AMiRE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 314-322

  Groß, Roderich ^a   Bonani, Michael ^b   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Dorigo, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Collective robotics; Self assembly; Self reconfigurable robotics; Swarm intelligence; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; PHYSICAL ROBOTS; SELF-ASSEMBLING; SELF-RECONFIGURABLE; STATE OF THE ART; SWARM INTELLIGENCE; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; NAVIGATION; ROBOTICS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84878607131     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-29344-2_47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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