Ant Intelligent Robot: A Versatile and Low Cost Miniature Mobile Robot Platform for Swarm Robotics Research and Education

Abstract

In this paper we present the Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR), a miniature mobile platform designed for swarm robotic research and education. The proposed system has a modular and distributed architecture that provides the necessary versatility, robustness and user accessibility to enable the study of a broad range of applications, while achieving a low cost. We also present a comparison between AIR and other platforms that were recently used in collective experiments.Mobile robot platform, modular design, distributed hardware architecture, small size robot, multi-robot systems. E-Puck [10] [16][22]. These platforms have processing power ranging from 20MHz -400 MHz, provide range and local .BICT 2015, December 03-05, New York City, United States