Building patterned structures with robot swarms

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1495-1502

  Werfel, Justin ^a,b   Bar Yam, Yaneer ^b,c   Nagpal, Radhika ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; ADAPTIVE STRUCTURE; BUILDING BLOCKES; FUNCTIONAL CONSTRAINTS; PATTERNED STRUCTURE; SOLID STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PROCESSING;

STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS);

EID: 84880749479     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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