Robotics > Swarm Robotics

Optimizing mobile robot power efficiency The basic physical body of the robot should be understood and optimized first. Robot should be as lightweight as possible, unless high mass (for weight or inertia) is needed for a specific reason. Friction between moving parts should be minimized except for the parts that need a certain amount of friction. The components must be energy efficient, such as motors, […] Read More

Here is a new swarm robot study from University of Toronto. Video by: http://cimlab.mie.utoronto.ca/   Read More

Computer scientists have created a low-cost, autonomous micro-robot which in large numbers can replicate the behaviour of swarming honeybees Colias – named after a genus of butterfly – is an open-platform system that can be used to investigate collective behaviours and applied to swarm applications. Robotic swarms that take inspiration from nature have become a topic of fascination for robotics researchers, whose aim is to […] Read More

In a sign that all warfare is becoming more and more taken over by robots and autonomous vehicles, the US Navy just demonstrated that it can accompany its ships with autonomous vehicles. These robot boats, would protect the main ship, which is of high value and containing soldiers. It would also swarm an enemy boat, deflect or destroy it. Making vehicles autonomous has been an […] Read More

As a harbinger for the Paramount film “Star Trek – Into Darkness”, starting in May in Europe’s cinemas, a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars Electronica Futurelab from Linz (Austria). Quadrocopter maker Ascending Technologies GmbH from Munich (Germany) provided the aircrafts. 30 LED-equipped […] Read More

Here is a project done at University of Illinois, which uses smartphones and irobot vacuum cleaner robots, in order to do painting for a predetermined shape. One robot is given the task of being central robot which coordinates other robots and each unit communicate with each other using smart phones. In the video, once a robot completes its task, which is painting the line that […] Read More

• Introduction Since the beginning of industrial revolution, people always dreamed of newer and better machines doing tasks that could not be done at the time. When we first got introduced to radio, we wondered if one day we would be able to also see those people speaking on the radio too. When we first saw computers as big as a room, we wondered if […] Read More

Researchers at Harward University have demonstrated an insect robot achieving autonomous flight using closed loop control in vertical axis. They think that this approach can be used to enable autonomous flight on all 3 axis. A closed loop system is a control mechanism that uses feedback to control states or outputs of a dynamical system. To design a fully autonomous robot, even though in just […] Read More

As the use of robots in battlefields grows continuously, the problem of managing an ever growing quantity of information becomes more and more critical. In order to use the resources efficiently, the goal is to enable a single soldier to manage more and more robots and robotic vehicles at the same time. Currently it looks like there are several options to achieve this goal. One […] Read More

An algorithm for controlling multiple robots designed in Georgia Tech University allows robots to move in right formation in the most efficient way for a given goal. The robots are instructed to spell a word, and starting with a random configuration, they efficiently change their relative positions so that they spell each letter of the word, by traveling the minimum required distance. Each robot starts without a previous knowledge […] Read More