From local actions to global tasks: Simulation of stigmergy based foraging behavior

2004 2nd International IEEE Conference 'Intelligent Systems' - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 353-358

  Tsankova, Diana D ^a   Georgieva, Velichka S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Collective behavior; Foraging task; Mobile robot; Stigmergy

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS;

COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING TASKS; STIGMERGY;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 8844280066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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