Dynamicity to save energy in microrobots reconfiguration

Proceedings - IEEE 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, UIC 2013 and IEEE 10th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ATC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 246-253

  Lakhlef, Hicham ^a   Mabed, Hakim ^a   Bourgeois, Julien ^a  

^a FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

Distributed Algorithms; Dynamicity; MEMS; Mobility; Physical Topology; Self reconfiguration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894112417     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UIC-ATC.2013.107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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