The auction algorithm: a distributed relaxation method for the assignment problem
Annals of Operations Research - Special Issue: Parallel Optimization on Novel Computer Architectures
SCG '94 Proceedings of the tenth annual symposium on Computational geometry
NPAR '02 Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Non-photorealistic animation and rendering
Robot Motion Planning
Gradual spatial pattern formation of homogeneous robot group
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Special issue: Intelligent embedded agents
Applying a Taxonomy of Formation Control in Developing a Robotic System
ICTAI '05 Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence
Planning Algorithms
Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: A Mathematical Approach to Motion Coordination Algorithms
Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: A Mathematical Approach to Motion Coordination Algorithms
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Multi-robot coordination using generalized social potential fields
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications
Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications
Abstraction and control for Groups of robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Swarm aggregations using artificial potentials and sliding-mode control
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Distributed Coordination Control of Multiagent Systems While Preserving Connectedness
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Least squares quantization in PCM
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Human - robot swarm interaction for entertainment: from animation display to gesture based control
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Capt: Concurrent assignment and planning of trajectories for multiple robots
International Journal of Robotics Research
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In this article we present a novel display that is created using a group of mobile robots. In contrast to traditional displays that are based on a fixed grid of pixels, such as a screen or a projection, this work describes a display in which each pixel is a mobile robot of controllable color. Pixels become mobile entities, and their positioning and motion are used to produce a novel experience. The system input is a single image or an animation created by an artist. The first stage is to generate physical goal configurations and robot colors to optimally represent the input imagery with the available number of robots. The run-time system includes goal assignment, path planning and local reciprocal collision avoidance, to guarantee smooth, fast and oscillation-free motion between images. The algorithms scale to very large robot swarms and extend to a wide range of robot kinematics. Experimental evaluation is done for two different physical swarms of size 14 and 50 differentially driven robots, and for simulations with 1,000 robot pixels.