Colias: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications

Arvin, Farshad; Murray, John; Zhang, Chun; Yue, Shigang

doi:10.5772/58730

Cited by 70 publications

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“…In order to achieve this, the LGMD model was rewritten to fit to an embedded vision module featuring by an ARM ® micro-controller chip which serves as the main processor and also acquires video sequence from a tiny CMOS camera. This vision module enables a low-cost micro-robot, Colias [25], to demonstrate autonomous collision detection and avoidance behaviour, which was tested in various experiments with different environmental configurations.…”

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Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case

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Chen

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IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.

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Abstract-In this paper, we present a new bio-inspired vision system embedded for micro-robots. The vision system takes inspiration from locusts in detecting fast approaching objects. Neurophysiological research suggested that locusts use a wide-field visual neuron called lobula giant movement detector (LGMD) to respond to imminent collisions. In this work, we present the implementation of the selected neuron model by a low-cost ARM processor as part of a composite vision module. As the first embedded LGMD vision module fits to a micro-robot, the developed system performs all image acquisition and processing independently. The vision module is placed on top of a microrobot to initiate obstacle avoidance behaviour autonomously. Both simulation and real-world experiments were carried out to test the reliability and robustness of the vision system. The results of the experiments with different scenarios demonstrated the potential of the bio-inspired vision system as a low-cost embedded module for autonomous robots.

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Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case

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IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst.

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“…We use Colias [2] as the robot platform in our experiments. It is specially designed for swarm robotics research with a very compact size of 4 cm.…”

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Power-Law Distribution of Long-Term Experimental Data in Swarm Robotics

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Attar

Turgut

et al. 2015

Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence

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Abstract. Bio-inspired aggregation is one of the most fundamental behaviours that has been studied in swarm robotic for more than two decades. Biology revealed that the environmental characteristics are very important factors in aggregation of social insects and other animals. In this paper, we study the effects of different environmental factors such as size and texture of aggregation cues using real robots. In addition, we propose a mathematical model to predict the behaviour of the aggregation during an experiment.

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“…In addition, we can attach a color RGB sensor when we need to implement different types of messages in pheromone system. Table I shows the specification of Colias-Φ and two previously developed mobile robots, Colias [22] and AMiR [23]. …”

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Colias-Φ: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Artificial Pheromone Communication

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Xiong

Yue

2015

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Abstract-Ants pheromone communication is an efficient mechanism which took inspiration from nature. It has been used in various artificial intelligence and multi robotics researches. This paper presents the development of an autonomous micro robot to be used in swarm robotic researches especially in pheromone based communication systems. The robot is an extended version of Colias micro robot with capability of decoding and following artificial pheromone trails. We utilize a low-cost experimental setup to implement pheromone-based scenarios using a flat LCD screen and a USB camera. The results of the performed experiments with group of robots demonstrated the feasibility of Colias-Φ to be used in pheromone based experiments.

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Colias: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Swarm Robotic Applications

Cited by 70 publications

References 28 publications

Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case

Bio-Inspired Embedded Vision System for Autonomous Micro-Robots: The LGMD Case

Power-Law Distribution of Long-Term Experimental Data in Swarm Robotics

Colias-Φ: An Autonomous Micro Robot for Artificial Pheromone Communication

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