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SWARM-BOT: pattern formation in a swarm of self-assembling mobile robots

Erol Şahi̇n, Thomas Halva Labella, Vito Trianni, J. L. Deneubourg, Ph. Rasse, Dario Floreano, Luca Maria Gambardella, Francesco Mondada, Stefano Nolfi, Marco Dorigo

Year
2003
Citations
70

Abstract

We introduce a new robotic system, called swarm-bot. The system consists of a swarm of mobile robots with the ability to connect to/disconnect from each other to self-assemble into different kinds of structures. First, we describe our vision and the goals of the project. Then we present preliminary results on the formation of patterns obtained from a grid-world simulation of the system.

Keywords

Swarm behaviourSwarm roboticsComputer scienceMobile robotRobotAnt roboticsGridArtificial intelligenceDistributed computingHuman–computer interaction

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