Design of the “army-ant” cooperative lifting robot

Author

Bay, John S.

Author_Institution

Bradley Dept. of Electr. Eng., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

2

Issue

1

fYear

1995

fDate

3/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

43

Abstract

This paper describes the design and development of a new class of mobile robot. These small robots are intended to be simple and inexpensive, and will all be physically identical, thus constituting a homogeneous team of robots. They derive their usefulness from their group actions, performing physical tasks and making cooperative decisions as a coordinated team. All mechanical and electrical design aspects are decided with the group-dynamical behavior in mind. Because of their behavioral resemblance to their insect counterparts, they have been named "army ant" robots

Keywords

computerised control; cooperative systems; materials handling; mobile robots; army-ant cooperative lifting robot; cooperative decisions; coordinated team; group actions; group-dynamical behavior; homogeneous team; physical tasks; Cranes; Material storage; Materials handling; Mobile robots; Payloads; Performance evaluation; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Robotic assembly; Robotics and automation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9932

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/100.388293

Filename

388293