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Communication in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for Swarm Robotics

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh, Christopher Cianci, Xavier Raemy

Swarm intelligence, and swarm robotics in particular, are reaching a point where leveraging the potential of communication within an artificial systempromises to uncover newand varied directions for interesting research without compromising the key propert ...

2007

Distributed Communication in Swarms of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Felix Stephan Schill

Effective communication mechanisms are a key requirement for schools of submersible robots and their meaningful deployment. Large schools of identical submersibles require a fully distributed communication system which scales well and optimises for ”many-t ...

The Australian National University2007

Performance Benefits of Self-Assembly in a Swarm-Bot

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Roderich Gross

Mobile robots are said to be capable of self-assembly when they can autonomously form physical connections with each other. Despite the recent proliferation of self-assembling systems, little work has been done on using self-assembly to add functional valu ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2007

Coordination schemes for distributed boundary coverage with a swarm of miniature robots

Nicolaus Correll

We provide a comparison of a series of original coordination mechanisms for the distributed boundary coverage problem with a swarm of miniature robots. Our analysis is based on real robot experimentation and models at different levels of abstraction. Distr ...

EPFL2007

Self-Organised Coordinated Motion in Groups of Physically Connected Robots

Francesco Mondada, Mirco Dorigo, Michael Bonani

An important goal of collective robotics is the design of control systems that allow groups of robots to accomplish common tasks by coordinating without centralized control. In this paper, we study how a group of physically assembled robots can display coh ...

2007

Safety in Numbers: Fault Tolerance in Robot Swarms

The swarm intelligence literature frequently asserts that swarms exhibit high levels of robustness. That claim is, however, rather less frequently supported by empirical or theoretical analysis. But what do we mean by a 'robust' swarm? How would we measure ...

2006

System Identification of Self-Organizing Robotic Swarms

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll

We show system identification of self-organizing, swarm robotic systems using a ``gray-box'' approach, based on probabilistic macroscopic models. At hand of a well studied case study concerned with the autonomous inspection of a regular structure by a swar ...

Springer Verlag2006

SwisTrack: A Tracking Tool for Multi-Unit Robotic and Biological Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll, Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Tracking of miniature robotic platforms involves major challenges in image recognition and data association. We present our 3-year effort into developing the platform-independent, easy-to-use, and robust tracking software SwisTrack, which is tailored to re ...

2006

Relative Localization and Communication Module for Small-Scale Multi-Robot Systems

Alcherio Martinoli, James Pugh

We characterize and improve an existing infrared relative localization/communication module used to find range and bearing between robots in small-scale multi-robot systems. Modifications to the algorithms of the original system are suggested which offer b ...

2006

Collective Inspection of Regular Structures using a Swarm of Miniature Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll

We present a series of experiments concerned with the inspection of regular, engineered structures carried out using swarms of five to twenty autonomous, miniature robots, solely endowed with onboard, local sensors. Individual robot controllers are behavio ...

2006

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