Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept

Mondada, Francesco; Pettinaro, Giovanni C.; Guignard, A.; Kwee, Ivo; Floreano, Dario; Deneubourg, Jean‐Louis; Nolfi, Stefano; Gambardella, Luca Maria; Dorigo, Marco

doi:10.1023/b:auro.0000033972.50769.1c

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“…The foot-bots are derived from a previous robot called the s-bot [10]. Since the foot-bots are currently not yet available our work is based on simulation, whereby the simulator has been derived from an extensively tested s-bot simulator that has been refined and extended to include the new foot-bot features [3].…”

Section: The Robots and Their Communication Interfacesmentioning

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Wireless Communications for Distributed Navigation in Robot Swarms

Gianni

Ducatelle

Gambardella

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. We consider a swarm of robots equipped with an infrared range and bearing device that is able both to make estimates of the relative distance and angle between two robots in line-of-sight and to transfer data between them. Through the infrared range and bearing device, the robots create a line-of-sight mobile ad hoc network. We investigate different ways to implement a swarm-level distributed navigation function exploiting the routing information gathered within this network. In the scenario we consider, a number of different events present themselves in different locations. To be serviced, each event requires that a robot with the appropriate skills comes to its location. We present two swarm-level solutions for guiding the navigation of the selected robots towards the events. We use a bio-inspired ad hoc network routing protocol to dynamically find and maintain paths between a robot and an event location in the mobile line-of-sight network, and use them to guide the robot to its goal. The performance of the two approaches is studied in a number of network scenarios presenting different density, mobility, and bandwidth availability.

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Section: The Robots and Their Communication Interfacesmentioning

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Wireless Communications for Distributed Navigation in Robot Swarms

Gianni

Ducatelle

Gambardella

2009

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Mondada and Pettinaro [2] proposed the concept of Swarm-Bot, a group of autonomous mobile robots called SBOTs. S-BOTs have a particular assembling capability that enables them to connect physically to each other.…”

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Robot swarm communication networks: Architectures, protocols, and applications

Zhu

et al. 2008

2008 Third International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

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Abstract-There have been increasing interests in deploying a team of robots, or robot swarms, to fulfill certain complicated tasks such as surveillance. Since robot swarms may move to areas of far distance, it is important to have a pervasive networking environment for communications among robots, administrators, and mobile users. For this purpose, we propose to build a wireless mesh network as the wireless backbone within the areas of special interest. One or more robots can get connected with a nearby mesh router and access the remote server. Within each swarm, a self-organizing mobile ad hoc network is formed. With this type of robot swarm communication network, there are many important open issues to be addressed.

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“…This study was conducted on the SWARM-BOT robotic platform [11,10,3]. The system consists of a number of mobile autonomous robots called s-bots (see Fig.…”

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Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain

O’Grady

Groß

Mondada

et al. 2005

Advances in Artificial Life

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Abstract. Consider a group of autonomous, mobile robots with the ability to physically connect to one another (self-assemble). The group is said to exhibit functional self-assembly if the robots can choose to selfassemble in response to the demands of their task and environment [15]. We present the first robotic controller capable of functional self-assembly implemented on a real robotic platform.The task we consider requires a group of robots to navigate over an area of unknown terrain towards a target light source. If possible, the robots should navigate to the target independently. If, however, the terrain proves too difficult for a single robot, the robots should self-assemble into a larger group entity and collectively navigate to the target.We believe this to be one of the most complex tasks carried out to date by a team of physical autonomous robots. We present quantitative results confirming the efficacy of our controller. This puts our robotic system at the cutting edge of autonomous mobile multi-robot research.

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Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept

Cited by 307 publications

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Wireless Communications for Distributed Navigation in Robot Swarms

Wireless Communications for Distributed Navigation in Robot Swarms

Robot swarm communication networks: Architectures, protocols, and applications

Self-assembly on Demand in a Group of Physical Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigating Rough Terrain

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