Swarmanoid: A novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 60-71

  Dorigo, Marco ^a   Floreano, Dario ^b   Gambardella, Luca Maria ^c   Mondada, Francesco ^b   Nolfi, Stefano ^d   Baaboura, Tarek ^b   Birattari, Mauro ^a   Bonani, Michael ^b   Brambilla, Manuele ^a   Brutschy, Arne ^a   Burnier, Daniel ^b   Campo, Alexandre ^a   Christensen, Anders Lyhne ^a,e   Decugniere, Antal ^a   Di Caro, Gianni ^c   Ducatelle, Frederick ^c   Ferrante, Eliseo ^a   Förster, Alexander ^c   Gonzales, Javier Martinez ^a   Guzzi, Jerome ^c   Longchamp, Valentin ^b   Magnenat, Stephane ^b   Mathews, Nithin ^a   Montes De Oca, Marco ^a   O'Grady, Rehan ^a   Pinciroli, Carlo ^a   Pini, Giovanni ^a   Rétornaz, Philippe ^b   Roberts, James ^b   Sperati, Valerio ^d   Stirling, Timothy ^b   Stranieri, Alessandro ^a   Stützle, Thomas ^a   Trianni, Vito ^a,d   Tuci, Elio ^d   Turgut, Ali Emre ^f   Vaussard, Florian ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

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

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^f THK University   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL BEHAVIORS; HOMOGENEOUS SYSTEM; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LIMITED COMMUNICATION; LOCAL INFORMATION; PROOF OF CONCEPT; REAL-WORLD SYSTEM; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84890560467     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2013.2252996     Document Type: Article

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