Collective construction with multiple robots
نویسندگان
چکیده
We study the problem of construction by autonomous mobile robots focusing on the coordination strategy employed by the robots to solve a simple construction problem efficiently. In particular, we address the problem of constructing a linear 2D structure in a planar, bounded environment. A "minimalist" single-robot solution to the problem is given, as well as two multi-robot solutions, which are natural extensions to the single-robot approach, with varying degrees of inter-robot communication. Results show that with minimal inter-robot communication (1 bit of state), there is a significant improvement in the system performance. This improvement is invariant with respect to the size of the environment.
منابع مشابه
Are Autonomous Mobile Robots Able to Take Over Construction? A Review
Although construction has been known as a highly complex application field for autonomous robotic systems, recent advances in this field offer great hope for using robotic capabilities to develop automated construction. Today, space research agencies seek to build infrastructures without human intervention, and construction companies look to robots with the potential to improve construction qua...
متن کاملEvolving behavioral specialization in robot teams to solve a collective construction task
This article comparatively tests three cooperative co-evolution methods for automated controller design in simulated robot teams. Collective NeuroEvolution (CONE) co-evolves multiple robot controllers using emergent behavioral specialization in order to increase collective behavior task performance. CONE is comparatively evaluated with two related controller design methods in a collective const...
متن کاملCollective Robotic Site Preparation
Robotic site preparation has been identified as an integral precursor to human landings on Mars. Many species of social insect carry out the site preparation task when they construct their nests. A site preparation algorithm was developed based on the nest construction behavior of a particular species of ant, Leptothorax albipennis. In this paper, we present a new approach to modeling the tempo...
متن کاملBiologically Inspired Collective Robotics
In this chapter, we review our recent research in the area of collective robotics, and the problem of controlling multiple robots in the completion of common tasks. Our approach is characterized with a strong inclination for biological inspiration in which examples in nature — social insects in particular — are used as a way of designing strategies for controlling robots. This approach has been...
متن کاملCollective Construction with Robot Swarms
Social insects build large, complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. These natural systems inspire the research topic of collective construction, in which the goal is to engineer artificial systems that build in a similar way, with swarms of simple robots producing desired structures. In this chapter...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
عنوان ژورنال:
دوره شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002