Swarm-Bot: Pattern Formation in A Swarm Of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots

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2002-12-01

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Şahin, Erol
Trianni, Vito
Deneubourg, Jean-louis
Rasse, Philip
Floreano, Dario
Gambardella, Luca
Mondada, Francesco
Nolfi, Stefano
Dorigo, Marco

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In this paper we introduce a new robotic system, called swarm-bot. The system consists of a swarm of mobile robots with the ability to connect to/disconnect from each other to self-assemble into different kinds of structures. First, we describe our vision and the goals of the project. Then we present preliminary results on the formation of patterns obtained from a grid-world simulation of the system.

Subject Keywords

Ant Algorithms , Mobile Robot , Pattern Formation , Self-Assembling , Swarm Intelligence

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/84876

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2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (6 - 09 Ekim 2002)

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E. Şahin et al., “Swarm-Bot: Pattern Formation in A Swarm Of Self-Assembling Mobile Robots,” Yasmine Hammamet, Tunus, 2002, vol. 4, p. 145, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=0036971771&origin=inward.