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A swarm-bot is a robotic entity built of several autonomous mobile robots (called s-bots) physically connected together. This form of collective robotics exploits robot interactions both at the behavioral and physical levels. The goal of this paper is to analyze the physical performance of a swarm-bot as function of its size (number n of s-bots composing it). We present three tasks and the corresponding swarm-bot performances. In all three tasks we show superlinear performances in a range of n where the physical forces applied in the structure fit to the robot design. This superlinear performance range helps in understanding which swarm-bot size is optimal for a given task and gives interesting hints for the design of new application-oriented swarm-bots.
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Mondada, F., Bonani, M., Guignard, A., Magnenat, S., Studer, C., Floreano, D. (2005). Superlinear Physical Performances in a SWARM-BOT. In: Capcarrère, M.S., Freitas, A.A., Bentley, P.J., Johnson, C.G., Timmis, J. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11553090_29
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