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Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot

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Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005)

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Multi-robot systems have been studied in tasks that require the robots to be physically linked. In such a configuration, a group of robots may navigate a terrain that proves too difficult for a single robot. On the contrary, many collective tasks can be accomplished more efficiently by a group of independent robots. This paper is about swarm-bot, a robotic system that can operate in both configurations and autonomously switch from one to the other.

We examine the performance of a single robot and of groups of robots self-assembling with an object or another robot. We assess the robustness of the system with respect to different types of rough terrain. Finally, we evaluate the performance of swarms of 16 physical robots.

At present, for self-assembly in autonomous, mobile robotics, swarm-bots is the state of the art for what concerns reliability, robustness and speed.

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  1. IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

    Roderich Groß & Marco Dorigo

  2. ASL, École Polytechnique Fédérate de Lausanne, Switzerland

    Michael Bonani & Francesco Mondada

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  1. Dept. of Human and Artificial Intelligence Systems, University of Fukui, Bunkyo 3-9-1, 910-8507, Fukui, Japan

    Kazuyuki Murase , Kosuke Sekiyama  & Tomohide Naniwa ,  & 

  2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Osawa 1-1, 192-0397, Hachioji Tokyo, Japan

    Naoyuki Kubota

  3. Faculty of Information Technology School of Software Engineering & Data Communication, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, 001 Brisbane, Australia

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Groß, R., Bonani, M., Mondada, F., Dorigo, M. (2006). Autonomous Self-assembly in a Swarm-bot. In: Murase, K., Sekiyama, K., Naniwa, T., Kubota, N., Sitte, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29344-2_47

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