Efficient Simulation Environment of Wireless Radio Communications in MEMS Modular Robots

Nicolas Boillot (1) , Dominique Dhoutaut (1) , Julien Bourgeois (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

—Modular robots needs networking for coordination and it is particularly true for MEMS microrobots. A promising communication technology is nanowireless networking which could be integrated directly into MEMS microrobots, in our case, the catoms of the Claytronics project. A first step towards this objective is to design a wireless simulator able to deal with modular robots. This simulator called Vouivre is integrated in DPRSim a modular robot simulator developed by Intel Research. This paper describes Vouivre and its integration in DPRSim which is an interesting case of integrating different timelines in one simulator. Experiments validate our design and show the interest of using wireless communication in modular robots.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Nicolas Boillot, Dominique Dhoutaut, Julien Bourgeois. Efficient Simulation Environment of Wireless Radio Communications in MEMS Modular Robots. iThings, Aug 2013, Beijing, China. ⟨10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.118⟩. ⟨hal-01179778⟩