The Wanda Robot and Its Development System for Swarm Algorithms

Kettler, Alexander; Szymanski, Marc; Wörn, Heinz

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27482-4_15

Cited by 10 publications

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“…Each robot could communicate with surroundingrobots in dynamic environmental perception and it should be able to determine at least one of the information concerning the relative position, orientation, and speed of other robots. However, the ability of the robot to communicate depends on the computational resources and also the type and amount of sensors that are employed on the robots [23].…”

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confidence: 99%

Cooperative Avoidance Control-based Interval Fuzzy Kohonen Networks Algorithm in Simple Swarm Robots

2014

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Cooperative Avoidance Control-based Interval Fuzzy Kohonen Networks Algorithm in Simple Swarm Robots

2014

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“…For these interactions, additionally to sensors, the platform is equipped with an OLED display and a buzzer. The Wanda (Kettler et al, 2012 ) swarm robotic platform has a special assembly that could be used, e.g., to clean up the environment with a swarm. In addition, the authors implemented a whole tool chain especially for these robots from design and simulation to deployment.…”

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Swarm Robotic Behaviors and Current Applications

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In swarm robotics multiple robots collectively solve problems by forming advantageous structures and behaviors similar to the ones observed in natural systems, such as swarms of bees, birds, or fish. However, the step to industrial applications has not yet been made successfully. Literature is light on real-world swarm applications that apply actual swarm algorithms. Typically, only parts of swarm algorithms are used which we refer to as basic swarm behaviors. In this paper we collect and categorize these behaviors into spatial organization, navigation, decision making, and miscellaneous. This taxonomy is then applied to categorize a number of existing swarm robotic applications from research and industrial domains. Along with the classification, we give a comprehensive overview of research platforms that can be used for testing and evaluating swarm behavior, systems that are already on the market, and projects that target a specific market. Results from this survey show that swarm robotic applications are still rare today. Many industrial projects still rely on centralized control, and even though a solution with multiple robots is employed, the principal idea of swarm robotics of distributed decision making is neglected. We identified mainly following reasons: First of all, swarm behavior emerging from local interactions is hard to predict and a proof of its eligibility for applications in an industrial context is difficult to provide. Second, current communication architectures often do not match requirements for swarm communication, which often leads to a system with a centralized communication infrastructure. Finally, testing swarms for real industrial applications is an issue, since deployment in a productive environment is typically too risky and simulations of a target system may not be sufficiently accurate. In contrast, the research platforms present a means for transforming swarm robotics solutions from theory to prototype industrial systems.

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“…The individual robots can work as a robot swarm (e.g. [2]), fulfilling a general task and if required, aggregate into an organism to work together as a larger entity. The goal of the EU founded projects SYMBRION and REPLICATOR [3] is to develop such a mobile modular self-reconfigurable robotic system (mMSR).…”

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An alternative locomotion unit for mobile modular self-reconfigurable robots based on archimedes screws

Liedke

Winkler

Wörn

2013

2013 9th International Symposium on Mechatronics and Its Applications (ISMA)

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In this paper, we introduce a new locomotion unit for mobile modular self-reconfigurable robots. The design is based on Archimedes screws and allows a robot to utilize its full potential. With this newly designed drive unit called screw drive, a robot is able to drive in almost every direction while still using a simple, easy to control setup which requires very little space. Next to a general design description, we introduce the locomotion model for the screw drive used in simulation as well as in locomotion control of the robot. Additionally, we show several experiments to confirm the versatility of the screw drive.

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The Wanda Robot and Its Development System for Swarm Algorithms

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Cooperative Avoidance Control-based Interval Fuzzy Kohonen Networks Algorithm in Simple Swarm Robots

Cooperative Avoidance Control-based Interval Fuzzy Kohonen Networks Algorithm in Simple Swarm Robots

Swarm Robotic Behaviors and Current Applications

An alternative locomotion unit for mobile modular self-reconfigurable robots based on archimedes screws

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