Title :
The I-SWARM project
Author :
Woern, Heinz ; Szymanski, Marc ; Seyfried, Joerg
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Process Control & Robotics, Univ. Karlsruhe
Abstract :
This paper describes the initial work of the EC-funded project I-SWARM which aims to take a leap forward in robotics research, in distributed and adaptive systems as well as in understanding self-organizing biological swarm systems. The next step from today\´s micro robotics research will be the mass-production of micro robots, which can then be employed as a "real" swarm consisting of up to 1,000 robot clients. These clients will all be equipped with limited, pre-rational on-board intelligence. The swarm will consist of a huge number of heterogeneous robots, differing in the type of sensors, manipulators and computational power or behaviours and programs. Such a robot swarm can be employed for a variety of applications, including micro assembly nano-handling, biological, medical or cleaning tasks
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; microrobots; multi-robot systems; I-SWARM project; biological swarm system; microrobotics; robot swarm; Adaptive systems; Biology computing; Biosensors; Computational intelligence; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Manipulators; Medical robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robotic assembly;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2006. ROMAN 2006. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hatfield
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0564-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0565-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314376
