Evolutional and self-organizing robots-artificial life in robotics

Abstract

This paper deals with a self-organizing robotic system that consists of a number of autonomous robots. The system has modular structure. As one of the self-organizing robotic systems cellular robotic system (CEBOT) was proposed. The cellular robotic system is one of the distributed robotic systems, which is composed of a number of autonomous robotic units called cells. The cell is a fundamental modular unit that has a simple function. To carry out given tasks, the cells connect to each other and cooperate mutually. This paper describes the concept of the cellular robotic system (CEBOT), the social organization of robotic system and evolution of group systems.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>