Minimalistic approach towards communication and perception in microrobotic swarms

Abstract

Abstract-This work is primarily devoted to specific communication and sensing approaches applied for large microrobotic swarms. We investigate the minimal capabilities of a microrobot which still enable the whole robotic group to perform collective activities. These minimal capabilities are implemented in the hardware which allows exploring a phenomenon of swarm intelligence in real experiments. The components of the developed system consume energy provided by microcontroller's I/O ports, are cheap and available on micro-component market.

Multi-Robot Systems Control Implementation

“…On the other hand, in (Wu et al, 2008) a kind of sensors is used because they became cheaper that others. In (Kornienko et al, 2005), the components of the developed system consume energy provided by microcontroller's I/O ports, are cheap and available on micro-component market. Besides the use of individual components, (Andrews et al, 2007) integrate economic and technical issues into an unified engineering design framework for the manufacturers of robots.…”

On Adaptive Self-Organization in Artificial Robot Organisms

“…Considering multi-robot systems, such as collective, swarm [9], reconfigurable and cellular robotics [10], we should note that these systems utilize another principle of control and organization: instead of one or several central controllers, collective systems undergo different selforganizing (SO) processes [11]. In particular, this work addresses a new type of collective systems [12]: many single swarm robots can aggregate into one multi-robot organism, see Fig.…”

Cognitive Systems Platforms using Open Source

“…To demonstrate this idea, we consider a collective energy foraging scenario for the Jasmine micro-robots [26]. Swarm robots can autonomously find an energy source and recharge.…”