Protoswarm: A language for programming multi-robot systems using the amorphous medium abstraction

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1153-1156

  Bachrach, Jonathan ^a   McLurkin, James ^a   Grue, Anthony ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

And Swarm robotics; Programming languages; Spatial computing

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOT LEARNING; SEMANTICS;

ALTERNATE APPROACHES; APPLICATION CODES; CONTINUOUS SPACES; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; MULTI-AGENT ALGORITHMS; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; SPATIAL COMPUTING; SWARM ROBOTICS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 84899993493     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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