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 projects

Results

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.