The Effect of the Environment in the Synthesis of Robotic Controllers: A Case Study in Multi-Robot Obstacle Avoidance using Distributed Particle Swarm Optimization

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 561-568

  Mario, Ezequiel Di ^a   Navarro, Inaki ^a   Martinoli, Alcherio ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOMIMETICS; MACHINE DESIGN; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); ROBOTS; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

CASE-STUDIES; COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; DAILY LIVES; DISTRIBUTED PARTICLES; MULTIROBOTS; PARTICLE SWARM; ROBOT OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; ROBOTIC CONTROLLERS; SIMPLE ENVIRONMENTS; SWARM OPTIMIZATION;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84908576069     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch081     Document Type: Conference Paper

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