A broadcast-based coordination scheme for a system of autonomous mobile robots

A method for coordinating a homogeneous swarm of autonomous mobile robots is presented. The broadcast-based coordination scheme was developed for the Army Ant swarm—a system of small, relatively inexpensive mobile robots that can accomplish complex tasks by cooperating as a team. The primary drawbac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharman, Kimberly
Other Authors: Electrical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42057
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04142009-040330/