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AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Collaborative Signal Reinforcement in Sensor Networks
Nodes in sensor fields and in autonomous swarms of mobile robots need to communicate; this usually requires individual nodes to either consume a significant amount of energy, ca...
Tingting Meng, Peter M. Athanas
QEST
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Generic Mean Field Convergence Result for Systems of Interacting Objects
We consider a model for interacting objects, where the evolution of each object is given by a finite state Markov chain, whose transition matrix depends on the present and the pa...
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, David McDonald, Jochen Mundin...
JIRS
2010
104views more  JIRS 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
On the Generation of Trajectories for Multiple UAVs in Environments with Obstacles
Abstract This paper presents a methodology based on a variation of the Rapidlyexploring Random Trees (RRTs) that generates feasible trajectories for a team of autonomous aerial veh...
Armando Alves Neto, Douglas Guimarães Macha...
SAB
2010
Springer
140views Optimization» more  SAB 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
A Model of Symmetry Breaking in Collective Decision-Making
Abstract. Symmetry breaking is commonly found in self-organized collective decision making. It serves an important functional role, specifically in biological and bio-inspired sys...
Heiko Hamann, Bernd Meyer, Thomas Schmickl, Karl C...
CEC
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 days ago
What is situated evolution?
—In this paper we discuss the notion of situated evolution. Our treatment includes positioning situated evolution on the map of evolutionary processes in terms of time- and space...
Martijn C. Schut, Evert Haasdijk, A. E. Eiben