http://blog.ascens-ist.eu Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:17:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://blog.ascens-ist.eu/2011/03/ensembles-and-mobile-robots-what-is-the-link/#comment-48 Robot Swarms – What can formal methods do? « ASCENS Project Blog Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:17:31 +0000 http://blog.ascens-ist.eu/?p=52#comment-48 [...] posts of this blog (see Ensembles and mobile robots, where is the link? and Robot Swarms – What can they do?) have convinced us that the swarm robotics case study is of [...] [...] posts of this blog (see Ensembles and mobile robots, where is the link? and Robot Swarms – What can they do?) have convinced us that the swarm robotics case study is of [...]

]]> http://blog.ascens-ist.eu/2011/03/ensembles-and-mobile-robots-what-is-the-link/#comment-29 Robot Swarms – What can they do? « ASCENS Project Blog Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:48:51 +0000 http://blog.ascens-ist.eu/?p=52#comment-29 [...] In the following video,  a group of robots team up to transport an object that is too heavy for a single robot to move. Note that the control is distributed - the designer of the system set up simple rules to ensure that the robots would cooperate to move the object. But the rules are set up in such a way that the number of robots doesn't need to be specified in advance.  So the same control could be used with two robots, or a hundred robots. And the control would still work if two robots happen not to boot up at the start of the experiment. The video was taken from experiments conducted in the swarm-bots project (http://www.swarm-bots.org), which concluded in 2005. In the Ascens project we will be using a robot with a similar form factor, but with much more advanced sensors, actuators and computational abilities (see previous post http://blog.ascens-ist.eu/2011/03/ensembles-and-mobile-robots-what-is-the-link/). [...] [...] In the following video,  a group of robots team up to transport an object that is too heavy for a single robot to move. Note that the control is distributed – the designer of the system set up simple rules to ensure that the robots would cooperate to move the object. But the rules are set up in such a way that the number of robots doesn't need to be specified in advance.  So the same control could be used with two robots, or a hundred robots. And the control would still work if two robots happen not to boot up at the start of the experiment. The video was taken from experiments conducted in the swarm-bots project (http://www.swarm-bots.org), which concluded in 2005. In the Ascens project we will be using a robot with a similar form factor, but with much more advanced sensors, actuators and computational abilities (see previous post http://blog.ascens-ist.eu/2011/03/ensembles-and-mobile-robots-what-is-the-link/). [...]

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