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Laboratoire de systèmes robotiques LSRO
MINIATURE Mobile robots GROUP MOBOTS
Self-Assembling Robots
Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat
Introduction
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.
Projects
This activity was supported in the past by the swarm-bot and the swarmanoid projects. It is now carried out within the ASCENS and H2Swarm projectsResults
This project resulted in several papers, availables below.
A demonstration of some results in a concrete application is the following:
Final video of the swarmanoid projects.
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.
- www.ascens-ist.eu:
web site of the ASCENS project.