Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
The ant colony optimization meta-heuristic
New ideas in optimization
System architecture directions for networked sensors
ASPLOS IX Proceedings of the ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
Mobile Robot Miniaturisation: A Tool for Investigation in Control Algorithms
The 3rd International Symposium on Experimental Robotics III
Minimalist coherent swarming of wireless networked autonomous mobile robots
ICSAB Proceedings of the seventh international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Telos: enabling ultra-low power wireless research
IPSN '05 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Information processing in sensor networks
From swarm intelligence to swarm robotics
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
Toward multi-level modeling of robotic sensor networks: a case study in acoustic event monitoring
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Robot communication and coordination
Distributed Adaptation in Multi-robot Search Using Particle Swarm Optimization
SAB '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From Animals to Animats
Open E-puck range & bearing miniaturized board for local communication in swarm robotics
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Traffic control for a swarm of robots: avoiding group conflicts
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Traffic control for a swarm of robots: avoiding target congestion
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
LumiBots: making emergence graspable in a swarm of robots
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Open-hardware e-puck Linux extension board for experimental swarm robotics research
Microprocessors & Microsystems
The evolution of signal communication for the e-puck robot
MICAI'11 Proceedings of the 10th Mexican international conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence - Volume Part I
Robotics software frameworks for multi-agent robotic systems development
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Self-reconfigurable modular e-pucks
ANTS'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Swarm Intelligence
The PANOPTIC Camera: A Plenoptic Sensor with Real-Time Omnidirectional Capability
Journal of Signal Processing Systems
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Swarm intelligence, and swarm robotics in particular, are reaching a point where leveraging the potential of communication within an artificial systempromises to uncover newand varied directions for interesting research without compromising the key properties of swarmintelligent systems such as self-organization, scalability, and robustness. However, the physical constraints of using radios in a robotic swarm are hardly obvious, and the intuitive models often used for describing such systems do not always capture them with adequate accuracy. In order to demonstrate this effectively in the classroom, certain tools can be used, including simulation and real robots. Most instructors currently focus on simulation, as it requires significantly less investment of time, money, and maintenance--but to really understand the differences between simulation and reality, it is also necessary to work with the real platforms from time to time. To our knowledge, our coursemay be the only one in the world where individual students are consistently afforded the opportunity to work with a networked multi-robot system on a tabletop. The e-Puck, a low-cost small-scale mobile robotic platform designed for educational use, allows us bringing real robotic hardware into the classroom in numbers sufficient to demonstrate and teach swarm-robotic concepts.We present here a custom module for local radio communication as a stackable extension board for the e-Puck, enabling information exchange between robots and also with any other IEEE 802.15.4-compatible devices. Transmission power can be modified in software to yield effective communication ranges as small as fifteen centimeters. This intentionally small range allows us to demonstrate interesting collective behavior based on local information and control in a limited amount of physical space, where ordinary radios would typically result in a completely connected network. Here we show the use of this module facilitating a collective decision among a group of 10 robots.