Controlling the cooperative behavior of a system of automous mobile robots

A novel material transport system is presented that uses 'swarms' of small autonomous mobile robots to collectively lift and move palletized loads. The robots are relatively unsophisticated in design and have no advanced sensory or communications capability. There is no central or supervis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stilwell, Daniel J.
Other Authors: Electrical Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40755
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01242009-063341/