UB Robot Swarm System: Design and Implementation
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Authors
Patil, Madhav
Abukhalil, Tamer Yousef
Sobh, Tarek M.
Issue Date
2014-03-28
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
Keywords
Engineering , Faculty research day , Robot swarm
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Abstract
In this poster we described the hardware architecture of an inexpensive, heterogeneous, mobile robot swarm, designed and developed at RISC lab, University of Bridgeport. Each UB robot swarm is equipped with sensors, actuators, control and communication units, power supply, and interconnection mechanism. Robot swarms have become a new research paradigm in the last ten years offering novel approaches, such as self-reconfigurabity, self-assembly, self-replication and self-learning. Developing a multi-agent robot system with heterogeneity and larger behavioral repertoire is a great challenge. This robot swarm is capable of performing user defined tasks such as wall painting, mapping, human rescue operations, task allocation, obstacle avoidance, and object transportation.