Author : Chris Melhuish
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots by : Chris Melhuish
Download or read book Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots written by Chris Melhuish and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2001-04-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many might think that the robot industry is not ready yet to build an abstract painter with a political theory. Perhaps Melhuish (engineering, U. of the West of England) agrees, because what he talks about instead is the idea of getting a whole lot of dumb robots to work together to accomplish something smart. The inspiration for the approach are social insects, which are limited individually yet can as a group achieve remarkable feats. He presents minimalist strategies for controlling and coordinating such a system in the domains of moving through the environment, creating work gangs of a desired size, and acting on the environment. Distributed in the US by ASME. c. Book News Inc.