TY - GEN
T1 - Constructing low-cost swarm robots that march in column formation
AU - Kouno, Asuki
AU - Takano, Shigeru
AU - Suzuki, Einoshin
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Formation control is an important research topic in swarm robotics, as it enables each swarm robot to concentrate on its task by relying on others [1,2]. This paper is a brief summary of our endeavor for constructing low-cost swarm robots that march in column formation [4]. n = 5 swarm robots move in file, except the leading one each follows another one and all of them avoid perimeters of an indoor arena. We describe detailed settings of the control program for further studies. Our work focuses on real robots and is thus considered to be complementary to theoretical and simulation studies, cf. [3].
AB - Formation control is an important research topic in swarm robotics, as it enables each swarm robot to concentrate on its task by relying on others [1,2]. This paper is a brief summary of our endeavor for constructing low-cost swarm robots that march in column formation [4]. n = 5 swarm robots move in file, except the leading one each follows another one and all of them avoid perimeters of an indoor arena. We describe detailed settings of the control program for further studies. Our work focuses on real robots and is thus considered to be complementary to theoretical and simulation studies, cf. [3].
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78049284863&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=78049284863&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_58
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_58
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78049284863
SN - 3642154603
SN - 9783642154607
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 556
EP - 557
BT - Swarm Intelligence - 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2010
Y2 - 8 September 2010 through 10 September 2010
ER -