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Constructing Low-Cost Swarm Robots That March in Column Formation 

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Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010)

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Formation control is an important research topic in swarm robotics, as it enables each swarm robot to concentrate on its task by relying on others [1,2]. This paper is a brief summary of our endeavor for constructing low-cost swarm robots that march in column formation [4]. n = 5 swarm robots move in file, except the leading one each follows another one and all of them avoid perimeters of an indoor arena. We describe detailed settings of the control program for further studies. Our work focuses on real robots and is thus considered to be complementary to theoretical and simulation studies, cf. [3].

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  1. Grad. School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Asuki Kouno & Einoshin Suzuki

  2. Dept. Informatics, ISEE, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Shigeru Takano & Einoshin Suzuki

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  1. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Marco Dorigo

  2. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Mauro Birattari

  3. ’Dalla Molle’ Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Galleria 2, 6928, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

    Gianni A. Di Caro

  4. Complex Systems Institute, Paris-Ile-de-France, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, 57-59, rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France

    René Doursat

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, 0002, P.O. Box, Pretoria, South Africa

    Andries P. Engelbrecht

  6. EPFL, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dario Floreano

  7. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland

    Luca Maria Gambardella

  8. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK

    Roderich Groß

  9. KOVAN Research Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Inonu Bulvari, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    Erol Åžahin

  10. Department of Bioengineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York, 13902-6000, Binghamton NY, USA

    Hiroki Sayama

  11. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Thomas Stützle

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Kouno, A., Takano, S., Suzuki, E. (2010). Constructing Low-Cost Swarm Robots That March in Column Formation  . In: Dorigo, M., et al. Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_58

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