Swarm Behavioral Sorting based on Robotic Hardware Variation

Beining Shang, Richard M. Crowder, Klaus-Peter Zauner

2014

Abstract

Swarm robotic systems can offer advantages of robustness, flexibility and scalability, just like social insects. One of the issues that researchers are facing is the hardware variation when implementing real robotic swarms. Identical software can not guarantee identical behaviors among all robots due to hardware differences between swarm members. We propose a novel approach for sorting swarm robots according to their hardware differences. This method is based on the large number of interactions between robots and the environment. Individual robot’s unique hardware circumstance determines its unique decision and reaction during each robotic controlling step, and these unique local reactions accumulate and contribute to the robot’s global behavior. Accordingly by separating these hardware-triggered global behaviors, swarm robots can be sorted according to their hardware variations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Shang B., Crowder R. and Zauner K. (2014). Swarm Behavioral Sorting based on Robotic Hardware Variation . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-758-038-3, pages 631-636. DOI: 10.5220/0005111006310636

in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech14,
author={Beining Shang and Richard M. Crowder and Klaus-Peter Zauner},
title={Swarm Behavioral Sorting based on Robotic Hardware Variation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2014},
pages={631-636},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005111006310636},
isbn={978-989-758-038-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Swarm Behavioral Sorting based on Robotic Hardware Variation
SN - 978-989-758-038-3
AU - Shang B.
AU - Crowder R.
AU - Zauner K.
PY - 2014
SP - 631
EP - 636
DO - 10.5220/0005111006310636