From MMVLWiki

Demo video of EU FP6 I-SWARM project

Short video of the mobile platform

Robots forming a line with distributed behaviour

Artist's impression of swarming micro-robots

Simulation of the new I-SWARM robot. The simulation was done using the Breve Simulation Environment

The I-SWARM Project

The FP6-IST project 507006 (https://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=PROJ_IST&ACTION=D&RCN=71243) 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

• Jasmine Robots
• Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Robot simulation with Gazebo

External Links

• Sheffield Hallam University
  • Official MMVL's I-Swarm page (https://www.shu.ac.uk/mmvl/research/research-active-I-SWARM.html)
  • MMVL's private Wiki page (https://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/mediawiki3-1.4.10/index.php/I-Swarm)
• IPR, University of Karlsruhe
  • IPR's Microrobotics Wiki page (https://microrobotics.ira.uka.de/)
  • iSwarm-project video (https://wwwipr.ira.uka.de/~seyfried/I-SWARM_IST_event.avi) (12.4 MByte)
  • Ant like robots using pheromones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3E86D4dKN4) (Youtube video)
• IPVS, University of Stuttgart
  • Open source micro-robotic project (https://www.swarmrobot.org/)
  • Project Collective Microrobotics (httpss://ipvszope.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvs/abteilungen/bv/forschung/projekte/Collective%20robotics/en)
• Other I-SWARM partners
  • Robot videos by E.G. Papadopoulos (https://nereus.mech.ntua.gr/videos.html)
• Simulations
  • Gazebo (https://playerstage.sourceforge.net/gazebo/gazebo.html) robot simulator
  • Breve (https://www.spiderland.org/breve/) robot simulator
  • Simulation of biological structures (https://algorithmicbotany.org/vmm-deluxe/)
  • Essex Ultraswarm (https://gridswarms.essex.ac.uk/)
• UC Berkeley Rovotics
  • UC Berkeley Robotics (https://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/)
  • Silicon Microrobots (https://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/archive/users/hollar-seth/microrobotics.html)
  • Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project (https://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/MFI/index.html)
• JLH Labs (https://www.jlhlabs.com/jhill_cs/)
• Shadow Robot Company (https://www.shadowrobot.com/projects/addprojects.shtml)
• ATRV-JR: Cooperative Navigation for Rescue Robots (https://rescue.isr.ist.utl.pt/index.php)
• James Mc Lurkin's page at MIT (https://people.csail.mit.edu/jamesm/publications.php)
• OROCOS project: Open robot control software (https://www.orocos.org/)
• FlockBots wiki (https://cs.gmu.edu/~eclab/projects/robots/flockbots/pmwiki.php)
• List of projects at Opencores.org (https://www.opencores.org/browse.cgi/by_category)
• Centibots (https://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/tech_design/robot.html)
• Mobile Robotics Software Challenge (https://www.mobilerobot.org/MRSC.htm) 24th June, Portland, Oregon
• Varioptic liquid lenses (https://www.varioptic.com/en/products.php?cat=assessment)
• Stanford Biomimetic Robotics (https://www-cdr.stanford.edu/biomimetics/)
• Elrob2006 (https://www.fgan.de/~elrob2006/rcv_appl.html)
• Pico-microrobot built by hobbyist (https://www.poor-robot.com/pico/)
• Swarm-Bots EU project (https://www.swarm-bots.org/)
• Swarm Systems Ltd (https://www.swarmsys.com/)
• In the news
  • The I-Swarm project on Discovery Channel! (https://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050912/swarmrobot.html)
  • The I-Swarm project on Slashdot! (https://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/02/25/217225.shtml)
  • The I-Swarm project in IST-feature (https://istresults.cordis.lu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/ID/80703/BrowsingType/Features)
  • The I-Swarm project on Robots.net! (https://robots.net/article/1829.html)
  • The I-Swarm project on ZDNet! (https://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=172)
  • The I-Swarm project on Primidi.com! (https://www.primidi.com/2006/02/25.html#a1452)
  • The I-Swarm project on heise.de! (https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/71031)
  • The I-Swarm project on ABC News, Australia (https://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1459919.htm)
  • The I-Swarm project on Discovery Channel Canada! (https://www.exn.ca/dailyplanet/view.asp?date=3/31/2006)
  • The I-Swarm project on 3sat! (https://www.3sat.de/delta/107955/index.html)
  • The I-Swarm project on Inhabitat.com (https://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/31/swarms-of-solar-powered-microbots-may-revolutionize-data-gathering/) (and on Slashdot again (https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/01/0228203))
  • The I-Swarm project on Hizook (https://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/08/29/i-swarm-micro-robots-realized-impressive-full-system-integration)