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Simulation of the new I-SWARM robot. The simulation was done using the Breve Simulation Environment
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The I-SWARM Project
The FP6-IST project 507006 called "Intelligent Small World Autonomous Robots for Micro-Manipulation" (I-SWARM) 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. The project will end in December 2007.
See Also
External Links
- Sheffield Hallam University
- IPR, University of Karlsruhe
- IPR's Microrobotics Wiki page
- iSwarm-project video (12.4 MByte)
- Ant like robots using pheromones (Youtube video)
- IPVS, University of Stuttgart
- Other I-SWARM partners
- Simulations
- Gazebo robot simulator
- Breve robot simulator
- Simulation of biological structures
- Essex Ultraswarm
- UC Berkeley Rovotics
- JLH Labs
- Shadow Robot Company
- ATRV-JR: Cooperative Navigation for Rescue Robots
- James Mc Lurkin's page at MIT
- OROCOS project: Open robot control software
- FlockBots wiki
- List of projects at Opencores.org
- Centibots
- Mobile Robotics Software Challenge 24th June, Portland, Oregon
- Varioptic liquid lenses
- Stanford Biomimetic Robotics
- Elrob2006
- Pico-microrobot built by hobbyist
- Swarm-Bots EU project
- Swarm Systems Ltd
- In the news
- The I-Swarm project on Discovery Channel!
- The I-Swarm project on Slashdot!
- The I-Swarm project in IST-feature
- The I-Swarm project on Robots.net!
- The I-Swarm project on ZDNet!
- The I-Swarm project on Primidi.com!
- The I-Swarm project on heise.de!
- The I-Swarm project on ABC News, Australia
- The I-Swarm project on Discovery Channel Canada!
- The I-Swarm project on 3sat!
- The I-Swarm project on Inhabitat.com (and on Slashdot)
