I-SWARM

Robots forming a line with distributed behaviour

Artist's impression of swarming micro-robots

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's deadline is January 2008.

See Also

• Iterated Function System
• Robot simulation with Gazebo
• Jennic ZigBee Device

External Links

• IPR
  • Open source micro-robotic project
  • IPR microrobotics Wiki
  • iSwarm-project video (12.4 MByte)
• Sheffield Hallam University
  • Official MMVL I-Swarm page
  • I-Swarm MMVL private section
• Other partners
  • Robot videos by E.G. Papadopolous
  • I-Swarm open source swarming robots
• Simulations
  • Gazebo robot simulator
  • Breve robot simulator
  • Simulation of biological structures
  • Essex Ultraswarm
• UC Berkeley Robotics
  • Silicon Microrobots
  • Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project
• 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
• 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!