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ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
卷 1, 期 2, 页码 115-150出版社
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/1186778.1186779
关键词
Algorithms; Swarm robotics; evolutionary robotics; self-assembly; artificial neural networks; evolutionary algorithms; swarm intelligence
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资金
- European Commission [IST-2000-31010]
- Belgian FNRS
- ANTS project
- Scientific Research Directorate of the French Community of Belgium
This article illustrates the methods and results of two sets of experiments in which a group of mobile robots, called s-bots, are required to physically connect to each other, that is, to self-assemble, to cope with environmental conditions that prevent them from carrying out their task individually. The first set of experiments is a pioneering study on the utility of self-assembling robots to address relatively complex scenarios, such as cooperative object transport. The results of our work suggest that the s-bots possess hardware characteristics which facilitate the design of control mechanisms for autonomous self-assembly. The control architecture we developed proved particularly successful in guiding the robots engaged in the cooperative transport task. However, the results also showed that some features of the robots' controllers had a disruptive effect on their performances. The second set of experiments is an attempt to enhance the adaptiveness of our multi-robot system. In particular, we aim to synthesise an integrated (i.e., not-modular) decision-making mechanism which allows the s-bot to autonomously decide whether or not environmental contingencies require self-assembly. The results show that it is possible to synthesize, by using evolutionary computation techniques, artificial neural networks that integrate both the mechanisms for sensory-motor coordination and for decision making required by the robots in the context of self-assembly.
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