Self-organized flocking with a mobile robot swarm

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 40-47

  Turgut, Ali E ^a   Çelikkanat, Hande ^a   Gökçe, Fatih ^a   Şahin, Eroi ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Flocking; Self organization; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SCALABILITY; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FLOCKING; MOBILE ROBOT PLATFORMS; MOBILE ROBOT SWARMS; SCALABLE METHODS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS; SWARM OF ROBOTS; SWARM ROBOTICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 84899967609     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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