Evolving aggregation behaviors in multi-robot systems with binary sensors

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 104, Issue , 2014, Pages 355-367

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; CONTROLLERS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS; ROBOTICS;

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; AGGREGATION PROCESS; AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CUES; FALSE NEGATIVES; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; POST EVALUATIONS; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT;

ROBOTS;

EID: 84927612012     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55146-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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