A SELF-ORGANIZING APPROACH BASED ON TASK-POINTS FOR FORMING COMPLEX SWARM-ROBOT TRANSPORT FORMATIONS

Yonghui Yang, Wangbao Xu, Genxi Rong, Xiaoping Liu, and Xuebo Chen

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