Main Characteristics Of Swarm Robotics

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Main Characteristics of Swarm Robotics:

♣ The swarm robots must be autonomous, that can be able to act and sense independently within the real environment.
♣ The swarm robots must be homogeneous, which must exist different types of robots within the environment.
♣ Robots have only local communication and sensing capabilities and do not have access to global information.
♣ The robots must be collaborating to improve the performance.

Comparing Swarm Robotics with Single Robots:

To complete a sophisticated task, the swarm robotics can achieve the same ability of a single robot with a lower amount of time and cost. The single robot must be designed with a complicated structure resulting in high cost of design, construction, and maintenance. …show more content…

This means that the lifetime of the swarm robotics is enlarged. In an environment without wired electricity, the swarm robotics can be more useful than a single …show more content…

Also, the swarm robotics can be applied to dangerous environment involving many targets, space or time. However, they can achieve the desired objectives.

Swarm Robotics Projects:

A lot of companies have launched projects supporting swarm robotics. These are some of the projects and their objectives:

♣ Open-source micro-robotic Project
Develop a cheap and reliable micro-robot that can be easily used even at home. This robot helps to produce a large number of swarm system (100 and more robots) to emergent phenomena, investigate artificial self-organization, and control in large robotic groups.

♣ Swarm-bots project
This project explores for implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts. Also, it aims to build robots that can adaptively act in human-made environments. The project after it was successfully completed in 2005; it has been extended by the swarm project.

♣ E-puck education robot
The project aims to design a robot system to carry out the exploration of autonomous mobile robotics for education use. The robots are cheap and flexible and can cover a large spectrum of educational activities thanks to a large potential in sensors, processing power, and

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