A mechanism to self-assemble patterns with autonomous robots

Authors:
Anders Lyhne Christensen;Rehan O'Grady;Marco Dorigo
Affiliations:
IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Venue:
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Year:
2007

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Abstract

There are examples of robotic systems in which autonomous mobile robots self-assemble into larger connected entities. However, existing systems display little or no autonomous control over the shape of the connected entity thus formed. We describe a novel distributed mechanism that allows autonomous mobile robots to self-assemble into pre-specified patterns. Global patterns are 'grown' using locally applicable rules and local visual perception only. In this study, we focus on the low-level navigation and directional self-assembly part of the pattern formation process. We analyse the precision of this mechanism on real robots.