Swarm robotic platforms apply
swarm robotics
Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple robots as a system which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. ″In a robot swarm, the collective behavior of the robots results from local interactions between ...
in multi-robot collaboration. They take inspiration from nature (e.g.
collective problem solving mechanisms seen in nature such as
honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the current cosm ...
aggregation
[Schmickl, Thomas, et al.]
Get in touch: cooperative decision making based on robot-to-robot collisions
. ''Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems'' 18.1 (2009): 133–155.[Arvin, Farshad, et al.]
Cue-based aggregation with a mobile robot swarm: a novel fuzzy-based method
. ''Adaptive Behavior'' (2014). .). The main goal is to control a large number of
robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. A robot can be guided by an external control device, or the control may be embedded within. Robots may ...
s (with limited sensing/processing ability) to accomplish a common task/problem. Hardware limitation and cost of robot platforms limit current research in swarm robotics to mostly performed by simulation software (e.g. Stage, ARGoS
[Pinciroli, Carlo, et al.]
ARGoS: a modular, multi-engine simulator for heterogeneous swarm robotics
. 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.). On the other hand, simulation of swarm scenarios that needs large numbers of agents is extremely complex and often inaccurate due to poor modelling of external conditions and limitation of computation.
Comparison of platforms
Several mobile
robot platforms have previously been developed to study swarm applications.
References
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