Pyro implementation of swarm-bots exploring target objects in an area with irregular barriers

Abstract

Robot system is widely used in unmanned exploration or investigation because it can be dangerous or impossible to explore a certain unknown area such as distant planet. For this purpose, highly intelligent single robot systems are generally used. But thinking of disabled situation, a lot of swarm-bots can be alternative to a single highly intelligent robot. This paper reports an implementation of swarm-bots on Player/Stage platform using Pyro. The swarm-bots implemented in this paper searching for a set of objects in an area with irregular barriers and bringing them to the home location where they start. A simple map construction algorithm is devised and implemented. According to the implementation, the swarm-bots can effectively collect the objects in the exploration area.