Kilobot: A Low Cost Scalable Robot System for Collective Behaviors
| Title: | Kilobot: A Low Cost Scalable Robot System for Collective Behaviors |
| Author: |
Rubenstein, Michael; Ahler, Christian Tjornelund; Nagpal, Radhika
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| Citation: | Rubenstein, Michael, Christian Ahler, Radhika Nagpal. 2012. Kilobot: A Low Cost Scalable Robot System for Collective Behaviors. In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IRCA 2012): May 14-18, Saint Paul, Minnesota, 3293-3298. Washington, D.C.: Computer Society Press of the IEEE. |
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| Abstract: | In current robotics research there is a vast body of work on algorithms and control methods for groups of decentralized cooperating robots, called a swarm or collective. These algorithms are generally meant to control collectives of hundreds or even thousands of robots; however, for reasons of cost, time, or complexity, they are generally validated in simulation only, or on a group of a few tens of robots. To address this issue, this paper presents Kilobot, a low-cost robot designed to make testing collective algorithms on hundreds or thousands of robots accessible to robotics researchers. To enable the possibility of large Kilobot collectives where the number of robots is an order of magnitude larger than the largest that exist today, each robot is made with only $14 worth of parts and takes 5 minutes to assemble. Furthermore, the robot design allows a single user to easily operate a large Kilobot collective, such as programming, powering on, and charging all robots, which would be difficult or impossible to do with many existing robotic systems. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224638 |
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http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/ssr/papers/icra12-rubenstein.pdf
http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~mrubenst/ICRA12.pdf http://ftp.deas.harvard.edu/techreports/tr-06-11.pdf |
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