The MICRoBES Project, an Experimental Approach towards 'Open Collective Robotics'

Sébastien Picault (1) , Alexis Drogoul (1)

1 OASIS - Objets et Agents pour Systèmes d'Information et Simulation

We focus here on "Open Collective Robotics", a research domain interested in studying concepts and techniques which could lead to true collectivities between humans and robots. We also present the MICRobES project, a long-term experiment intended to investigate how to design such collectivities. Therefore, the MICRobES robots have no prior specific functionality, they have to develop individual competences, a social organization, and sociability towards humans in order to "survive" in a dynamic environment.

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]; Robotique [cs.RO]; Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Sébastien Picault, Alexis Drogoul. The MICRoBES Project, an Experimental Approach towards 'Open Collective Robotics'. 5th International Conference on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS'2000), 2000, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. pp.481-482. ⟨hal-00860323⟩