The goal of this project is the study of a novel design approach to hardware implementation for testing and using the capability of self-assembling, self-organising, and metamorphosis of robotic systems. Such an approach finds its theoretical roots on recent studies in swarm intelligence, i.e., in studies of self-organising and self-assembling capabilities shown by social animals.
Results
This project resulted in several papers, availables below.
A demonstration of some results in a concrete application is the following:
We are currently adding self-assembling capabilites to our new robots:
Publications
Related Links
www.swarm-bots.org: web site of the Swarm-bots project, the initial project on self-assembling robots.
www.swarmanoid.org: web site of the Swarmanoid project, the successor of Swarm-bots.
