Group behavior control for MARS (micro autonomous robotic system)

Author

Fukuda, Toshio ; Mizoguchi, Hiroo ; Sekiyama, Kosuke ; Arai, Fumihito

Author_Institution

Center for Cooperative Res. in Adv. Sci. & Technol., Nagoya Univ., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1550

Abstract

We present the design of our small robot MARS (micro autonomous robotic system) and basic experiments of group behavior pattern. MARS is small mobile autonomous robot. The robot has sensors, battery and infrared light communication device. In addition, the robot can get programs from the host computer (programmable). We focus on group behavior design (cooperation, competition coordination etc.) to use real robot MARS and we try to realize the phase change of the group behavior pattern. One of our ultimate dream is designing life-like robotics systems, such as ant or fish societies

Keywords

computer vision; cooperative systems; distributed control; microrobots; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; MARS; ant society; competition coordination; cooperation; fish society; group behavior control; group behavior pattern; infrared light communication device; micro autonomous robotic system; small robot; Batteries; Communication system control; Control systems; Infrared sensors; Mars; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Optical fiber communication; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Detroit, MI

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5180-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1999.772580

Filename

772580