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Simulation and Experiments of the Simultaneous Self-assembly for Modular Swarm Robots

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Advances in Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2011)

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In our previous work, we have proposed a distributed self-assembly method based on Sambot platform. But there have interference of the infrared sensors between multiple Sambots. In this paper, two interference problems with multiple DSAs are solved and a novel simultaneous self-assembly method is proposed to enhance the efficiency of the self-assembly of modular swarm robots. Meanwhile, the simulation platform is established; some simulation experiments for various configurations are made and the results are analyzed for finding out evidence for further improvement. The simulation and physical experiment results verify the effectiveness and scalability of the simultaneous self-assembly algorithm which is more effective to shorten the assembly time.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 100191, Beijing, China

    Hongxing Wei, Yizhou Huang & Haiyuan Li

  2. Electrical Engineering Department, Michigan Technological University, 49931, Houghton, USA

    Jindong Tan

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  1. Key Laboratory of Machine Perception, Department of Machine Intelligence, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, China

    Ying Tan

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, 215123, Suzhou, China

    Yuhui Shi

  3. Automation College, Chongqing University, 400030, Chongqing, China

    Yi Chai

  4. Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 400065, Chongqing, P.R. China

    Guoyin Wang

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Wei, H., Huang, Y., Li, H., Tan, J. (2011). Simulation and Experiments of the Simultaneous Self-assembly for Modular Swarm Robots. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Chai, Y., Wang, G. (eds) Advances in Swarm Intelligence. ICSI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6729. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21524-7_15

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