DHPC Technical Report DHPC-121
An Architecture for Swarm Robots
K.A.Hawick, H.A.James, J.E.Story and R.G.Shepherd
Archived 15 September 2002.
Abstract
The area of collective and cooperative behaviour in swarm robots is an
exciting field of study. Recent technological and economic
developments have made it possible to build medium to large scale
swarms of quite sophisticated mobile robots. We review recent mobile
computing technologies and describe our architecture for a swarm of
tri-wheeled robots that can exchange information via wireless
architecture as well as through their onboard sensors. The main
objectives of our system are for educational purposes and as a
development platform for an intelligent software middleware to
coordinate the activities of a swarm. We also discuss some of the
experiments and behavioural goals we are able to study with our
system.
Keywords: robot swarm, architecture; mobile computing; wireless
communications.
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