1. Hybrid Coordination for Swarm Construction
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Zheng, Yating, Allwright, Michael, Dorigo, Marco, Zhu, Weixu, Kassawat, Majd, and Han, Zhangang
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BuilderBot ,collective construction ,stigmergic blocks ,ComputingMethodologies_MISCELLANEOUS ,ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS ,swarm robotics - Abstract
In this research, we study how to control a robot swarm so that it can be used to build structures. The BuilderBot robots in the swarm manipulate a building material called the Stigmergic Blocks, a type of active material that can exchange information with itself and with the robots.
- Published
- 2022
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