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Self-assembly and locomotion of diverse structures for swarm robots on adaption application

  • Beihang University
  • Michigan Technological University

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Abstract

Swarm robots can assemble different structures to adapt to the changing environmnts. This video shows the newly proposed Sambot form different robotic structures to climp the obscales to finish a phototaxis task in two ways, inculduing simulation and hardware experiments. According to a general control framework for the swarm robots with self-assembly in real environments proposed by us, there are three tasks: exploration task, self-assembly task and locomotion task. The module robot explores the range of the working space through sensors including infrared detector, and decide what structure is needed. Then, through self-assembly some modules dock with each other and form a complex configuration. This configuration can make the robots locomote and finish the given task. In the video, the adaption through self-assembly to the environment is dementrated, including assembling into a snake-like configuration to creep over the low boundary and a cross quadruped one to climb over the higher boundary.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages2409-2410
Number of pages2
ISBN (Print)9781457721373
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011 - Phuket, Thailand
Duration: 7 Dec 201111 Dec 2011

Publication series

Name2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityPhuket
Period7/12/1111/12/11

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