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ICARCV
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2008
IEEE
— We investigate the use of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and compare with Genetic Algorithms (GA), for a particular robot behavior-learning task: the training of an animat ...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
2009
IEEE
It is generally challenging to design decentralized controllers for swarms of robots because there is often no obvious relation between the individual robot behaviors and the final...
IROS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We study a simple algorithm inspired by the Brazil nut effect for achieving segregation in a swarm of mobile robots. The algorithm lets each robot mimic a particle of a certain...
ICRA
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
2009
IEEE
— We present a decentralized, scalable approach to assembling a group of heterogeneous parts into different products using a swarm of robots. While the assembly plans are predete...
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 17 days ago
2007
IEEE
For a mobile robot to move in a known environment and operate successfully, first it needs to robustly determine its initial position and orientation relative to the map, and then ...