Clustering objects with robots that do not compute

13th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2014

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 421-428

  Gauci, Melvin ^a   Chen, Jianing ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Dodd, Tony J ^a   Groß, Roderich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

E puck; Evolutionary robotics; Minimal information processing; Object clustering; Swarm robotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911399178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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