Large scale MEMS robots cooperative map building based on realistic simulation of nano-wireless communications

The Claytronics project has produced interesting hardware components like cylindric micro-robots called catoms and software models to enable the concept of programmable matter. One application is the use of several catoms linked together so that they can “walk”. These walkers can explore an area and thanks to electromagnetic wireless nanonetworks, they can communicate with each other sharing the map of the place to explore. In this paper, we study the different parameters influencing the transmission quality of the map to a sink which uses both traditional wireless and wireless nano-communication networks.