To flock or not to flock: The pros and cons of flocking in long-range "migration" of mobile robot swarms

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages 38-45

  Gökçe, Fatih ^a   Sahin, Erol ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flocking; Migration; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; EXPERIMENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

DESCRIPTORS; FLOCKING; MIGRATION; MOBILE ROBOT SWARMS; SIMPLE BEHAVIORS; SIMULATED ROBOT; SWARM ROBOTICS; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84899877717     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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