Robotic Canvas: Interactive Painting onto Robot Swarms

Alhafnawi, Merihan; Hauert, Sabine; O'Dowd, Paul

doi:10.1162/isal_a_00285

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“…Indeed, robots are normally stored, charged, transported, and deployed in regular formations: squared and rectangular lattices simplify the working logistics and hexagonal lattices maximise the packing density of robots with circular bodies. In addition to simplifying the transport and deployment logistics, having robots in regular formations can be a requirement for the successful execution of the collective task, for instance, the coherent motion of multi-robot aggregates (Pratissoli et al, 2019) and light pattern display (Alhafnawi et al, 2020). In these works, spatiotemporal coordination was achieved by manually providing the robots with information about their relative position within the formation.…”

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Decentralised construction of a global coordinate system in a large swarm of minimalistic robots

Pluháček¹,

Garnier²,

Reina³

2023

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Collective intelligence and autonomy of robot swarms can be improved by enabling the individual robots to become aware they are the constituent units of a larger whole and what is their role. In this study, we present an algorithm to enable positional self-awareness in a swarm of minimalistic error-prone robots which can only locally broadcast messages and estimate the distance from their neighbours. Despite being unable to measure the bearing of incoming messages, the robots running our algorithm can calculate their position within a swarm deployed in a regular formation. We show through experiments with up to 200 Kilobot robots that such positional self-awareness can be employed by the robots to create a shared coordinate system and dynamically self-assign location-dependent tasks. Our solution has fewer requirements than state-of-the-art algorithms and contains collective noise-filtering mechanisms. Therefore, it has an extended range of robotic platforms on which it can run. All robots are interchangeable, run the same code, and do not need any prior knowledge. Through our algorithm, robots reach collective synchronisation, and can autonomously become self-aware of the swarm's spatial configuration and their position within it.

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Decentralised construction of a global coordinate system in a large swarm of minimalistic robots

Pluháček¹,

Garnier²,

Reina³

2023

Preprint

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“…In a similar way, other attempts to exploit multirobot systems for entertainment have relied on some centralized solution to finely control the system [132], [133]. New avenues are possible if a decentralized approach is considered, especially if users can actively participate in the entertainment activity by engaging with the robot swarm, changing its dynamics according to positions, movements, and even emotions [134]. In this context, research can experiment with radically new modalities for HSI that can be afterward borrowed by other application domains.…”

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Swarm Robotics: Past, Present, and Future [Point of View]

2021

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S warm robotics deals with the design, construction, and deployment of large groups of robots that coordinate and cooperatively solve a problem or perform a task. It takes inspiration from natural self-organizing systems, such as social insects, fish schools, or bird flocks, characterized by emergent collective behavior based on simple local interaction rules [1], [2]. Typically, swarm robotics extracts engineering principles from the study of those natural systems in order to provide multirobot systems with comparable abilities. This way, it aims to build systems that are more robust, fault-tolerant, and flexible than single robots and that can better adapt their behavior to changes in the environment.

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Bio-inspired Heterogeneity in Swarm Robots

Sasaki¹

2023

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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Robotic Canvas: Interactive Painting onto Robot Swarms

Cited by 7 publications

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Decentralised construction of a global coordinate system in a large swarm of minimalistic robots

Decentralised construction of a global coordinate system in a large swarm of minimalistic robots

Swarm Robotics: Past, Present, and Future [Point of View]

Bio-inspired Heterogeneity in Swarm Robots

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