NDLI: Kilobot: A low cost scalable robot system for collective behaviors

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Rubenstein, M. Ahler, C. Nagpal, R.
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, USA (Rubenstein, M.; Ahler, C.; Nagpal, R.)
Abstract	In current robotics research there is a vast body of work on algorithms and control methods for groups of decentralized cooperating robots, called a swarm or collective. These algorithms are generally meant to control collectives of hundreds or even thousands of robots; however, for reasons of cost, time, or complexity, they are generally validated in simulation only, or on a group of a few tens of robots. To address this issue, this paper presents Kilobot, a low-cost robot designed to make testing collective algorithms on hundreds or thousands of robots accessible to robotics researchers. To enable the possibility of large Kilobot collectives where the number of robots is an order of magnitude larger than the largest that exist today, each robot is made with only $14 worth of parts and takes 5 minutes to assemble. Furthermore, the robot design allows a single user to easily operate a large Kilobot collective, such as programming, powering on, and charging all robots, which would be difficult or impossible to do with many existing robotic systems.
Starting Page	3293
Ending Page	3298
File Size	649033
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467314039
ISSN	10504729
e-ISBN	9781467314053
e-ISBN	9781467314046
DOI	10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224638
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-05-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Robot sensing systems Robot kinematics Batteries Collision avoidance Switches
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Control and Systems Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Software

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