Title :
A Prototype of a Low-Cost, Downsizeable, Dynamically Reconfigurable Unit for Robot Swarms
Author :
Ribas, Lluís ; Izquierdo, Miquel ; Mujal, Jordi ; Ramon, Eloi
Author_Institution :
Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona
Abstract :
Swarm robotics deals with emergent behavior of a collection of robots. These robots must be cheap and small in order to make it feasible to have a swarm out of them. In this work we present a prototype for one of such robots with emphasis on communication and processing capabilities. The result is a flexible, reconfigurable, dual-processor robot that could be used in physical modeling of robot swarms. The built prototype shows that further implementations can be easily downsized and inexpensive.
Keywords :
multi-robot systems; communication capabilities; dynamically reconfigurable unit; flexible reconfigurable dual-processor robot; physical modeling; processing capabilities; swarm robotics; Buildings; Communication system control; Costs; Emulation; Microelectronics; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Robot control; Robot sensing systems; Sensor phenomena and characterization;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 2007. ISIE 2007. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Vigo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0754-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0755-2
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.2007.4374944
