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.
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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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