Collective displacement of modular robots using self-reconfiguration.

Elian Carrillo (1) , Dominique Duhaut (1)

1 VALORIA - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications de Vannes et Lorient

Collective displacement is a very useful behaviour for living creatures. This behaviour can appear in a flock of birds, a school of fish, or a swarm of insects. Flocking behaviour is a common demonstration of the power of simple rules in collective displacement emergence by (Reynolds, 2007). The study of the displacement of a robot in an unknown universe is a traditional subject of robotics (Fredslund & Mataric, 2002). We address the problem of the displacement of a group of robot modules which are part of a reconfigurable robot (Christensen, 2005). Collective displacement is considered a very complex problem (Yoshida, 2001). The number of possible solutions gives a combinative explosion in the graph of possible displacements.

Domaines: Robotique [cs.RO]

Elian Carrillo, Dominique Duhaut. Collective displacement of modular robots using self-reconfiguration.. Maki K. Habib ISBN 978-3-902613-15-8, 544 p., 2007. ⟨hal-00515255⟩