Towards quorum sensing based distributed control for networks of mobile sensors

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1549-1554

  Geuther, Brian ^a   Behkam, Bahareh ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA NUMBER; BIASED RANDOM WALK; CHEMOTACTIC RESPONSE; COLLABORATIVE TASKS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS;

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNICATION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOTICS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893725093     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2013.6696555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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