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Design, production and development of mini/micro robots to form a cooperative colony
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Başaran, Dilek
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Design, production and development of individual mini/micro robots and then formation of their cooperative colony are the main topics of this thesis. The produced mini/micro robots are as small and light as possible. In addition, they are multifunctional (programmable), flexible and intelligent while maintaining a very low production cost. Mini/micro robots, called MinT-DB series are able to communicate with each other to work cooperatively. Moreover, these robots can be the basis for the future studies considering the application of artificial intelligence and modeling of live colonies in the nature. Traditional design, production and assembly techniques have been used widely up to now. However, none of them were related with the mini/micro scale. Therefore, this thesis can help people in understanding the difficulties of the design, production, and assembly of the mini/micro systems under the light of the reported science. In this thesis, instead of examining a specific application field of mini/micro robotic systems, a technology demonstrative work is carried out. Therefore, this thesis contributes to the mini/micro robotic technology, which is also very new and popular in today̕s world, with the robots having the dimensions of 7.5x6x6 cm.
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Autonomous mini/micro robots
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Multi-agent systems
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Artificial intelligence
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Robotic Communication and Cooperation
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Control
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Mechatronics
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D. Başaran, “Design, production and development of mini/micro robots to form a cooperative colony,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
