Abstract:
The adaptiveness of an autonomous multi-robot system is reduced if the circumstances an agent should take into account to make a decision concerning individual or collective behaviour are defined by a set of a priory assumptions. Based on this premise, this research work illustrates an alternative approach to the design of controllers for self- assembling robots in which the self-assembly is initiated and regulated by perceptual cues that are brought forth by the physical robots through their dynamical interactions.
Description:
Tuci E., Ampatzis C., Trianni V., Christensen A. L., Dorigo M., Self-Assembly in Physical Autonomous Robots: the Evolutionary Robotics Approach. Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALifeXI), pp 616-623, S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson, M. Bedau (Eds), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusset, USA, 2008
