Algorithms for control and interaction of large formations of robots

Authors:
Ross Mead;Jerry B. Weinberg
Affiliations:
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Computer Science, Edwardsville, IL;Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Computer Science, Edwardsville, IL
Venue:
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Year:
2006

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Abstract

NSF and NASA sponsored a workshop to discuss harvesting solar power in space. One solution considered was the use of a swarm of robots to form a solar reflector. How can these robots organize to form a large parabolic structure and be effectively controlled? The approach of this project is to treat the formation as a lattice of cells. Each cell is in one of a given state governed by a set of mles. A command that indicates the geometric formation is sent to a seed robot; the formation would then transform as neighbors attain their calculated relationship based on the formation definition.