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Autonomous Robots
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ECAL'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Artificial Life
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IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Cooperation in a heterogeneous robot swarm through spatially targeted communication
ANTS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Swarm intelligence
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WRLA'12 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications
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Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
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Robots are said to be capable of self-assembly when they can autonomously form physical connections with each other. By examining different ways in which a system can use self-assembly (i.e., different strategies), we demonstrate and quantify the performance costs and benefits of (i) acting as a physically larger self-assembled entity, (ii) letting the system choose when and if to self-assemble, (iii) coordinating the sensing and actuation of the connected robots so that they respond to the environment as a single collective entity. Our analysis is primarily based on real world experiments in a hill crossing task. The configuration of the hill is not known by the robots in advance--the hill can be present or absent, and can vary in steepness and orientation. In some configurations, the robots can overcome the hill more quickly by navigating individually, while other configurations require the robots to self-assemble to overcome the hill. We demonstrate the applicability of our self-assembly strategies to two other tasks--hole crossing and robot rescue--for which we present further proof-of-concept experiments with real robots.