Revision as of 21:43, 23 January 2006

Robots forming a line with distributed behaviour

Artist's impression of swarming micro-robots

This project aims to take a leap forward in robotics research by combining experts in microrobotics, in distributed and adaptive systems as well as in self-organising biological swarm systems. The project aims at technological advances to facilitate the mass-production of microrobots, which can then be employed as a "real" swarm consisting of up to 1,000 robot clients. These clients will all be equipped with limited, pre-rational on-board intelligence. The swarm will consist of a huge number of heterogeneous robots, differing in the type of sensors, manipulators and computational power. Such a robot swarm is expected to perform a variety of applications, including micro assembly, biological, medical or cleaning tasks.

See Also

• Jennic ZigBee Device

External Links

• Official MMVL I-Swarm page
• Mighty Mouse robot frees stuck radiation source
• Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project
• ATRV-JR: Cooperative Navigation for Rescue Robots
• Science news article Ants - learning from the collective
• James Mc Lurkin's page at MIT
• IPR microrobotics Wiki
• I-Swarm MMVL private section
• OROCOS project: Open robot control software
• FlockBots wiki
• List of projects at Opencores.org
• Gazebo robot simulator
• Breve robot simulator
• Centibots
• Mobile Robotics Software Challenge 24th June, Portland, Oregon