Handbook of Collective Robotics - Fundamentals and Challenges
Collective robotics is young and promising research field, where many robots work as one team, group or swarm to achieve a common goal. Collective systems provide several essential advantages such as extended reliability, scalability, flexibility and reconfigurability, capabilities for emergent and self-organizing phenomena. Depending on size, complexity and underlying principles of interaction and information transfer, there are different small-, middle- and large-scale systems, denoted as cooperative, networked, swarm and nano-robotics. All these systems utilize different mechanisms of perception, coordination and learning. Lately, research on swarm, reconfigurable and evolutionary robotics leaded to an appearance of morphogenetic systems, so-called artificial organisms, with advanced homeostatic and adaptive functionality. Collective systems became attractive for different underwater, aerial and industrial applications as well as for new areas of nano- and biological (bacterial) robotics. This book describes basic principles underlying collective systems, discusses such issues as design of emergence, fault tolerance, self-properties, artificial evolution, appearance of robot cultures and indicates main application areas.
This book is devoted to mechatronic, chemical, bacteriological, biological, and hybrid systems, utilizing cooperative, networked, swarm, self-organizing, evolutionary and bio-inspired design principles and targeting underwater, ground, air, and space applications. It addresses issues such as open-ended evolution, self-replication, self-development, reliability, scalability, energy foraging, adaptivity, and artificial sociality. The book has been prepared by 52 authors from world-leading research groups in 14 countries. This book covers not only current but also future key technologies and is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning more about collective robotics and how it might affect our society.
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1 | Chapter 1: Introduction to Collective Robotics: Reliability, Flexibility, and Scalability Serge Kernbach |
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49 | Chapter 2: The Swarm-Bot Experience: Strength and Mobility through Physical Cooperation Roderich Groß, Rehan O’Grady, Anders Lyhne Christensen, and Marco Dorigo |
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81 | Chapter 3: Architectures and Control of Networked Robotic Systems Nikolaus Correll and Daniela Rus |
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105 | Chapter 4: Cooperative Robotics in Robocup Soccer is Not Just Playing a Game Andrea Bonarini |
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127 | Chapter 5: Evolving Collective Control, Cooperation, and Distributed Cognition Vito Trianni and Stefano Nolfi |
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167 | Chapter 6: Reliability and Fault Tolerance in Collective Robot Systems Lynne E. Parker |
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205 | Chapter 7: Collective Reconfigurable Systems: Fundamentals of Self-Reconfiguration Planning Feili Hou and Wei-Min Shen |
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231 | Chapter 8: Self-Organized Robotic Systems: Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly Using Miniature Robots Gregory Mermoud, Amanda Prorok, Lo?c Matthey, Christopher Cianci, Nikolaus Correll, and Alcherio Martinoli |
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261 | Chapter 9: Biomimetic and Bioinspired Design of Collective Systems Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, and Jose Halloy |
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309 | Chapter 10: Improving the Scalability of Collective Systems Serge Kernbach |
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353 | Chapter 11: Collective Foraging: Cleaning, Energy Harvesting, and Trophallaxis Alan F. T. Winfield, Serge Kernbach, and Thomas Schmickl |
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413 | Chapter 12: Individual, Social, and Evolutionary Adaptation in Collective Systems Evert Haasdijk, A. E. Eiben, and Alan F. T. Winfield |
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473 | Chapter 13: Replicators: From Molecules to Organisms Istvan Zachar, Adam Kun, Chrisantha Fernando, and Eors Szathmary |
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505 | Chapter 14: Developmental Collective Robotics: Advantages and Challenges of Unbounded Self-Development Serge Kernbach |
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547 | Chapter 15: A General Methodology for the Control of Mixed Natural-Artificial Societies Francesco Mondada, Jos´e Halloy, Alcherio Martinoli, Nikolaus Correll, Alexey Gribovskiy, Gregory Sempo, Roland Siegwart, and Jean-Louis Deneubourg |
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587 | Chapter 16: Underwater Robot Swarms: Challenges and Opportunities Navinda Kottege, Felix Schill, Alexander Bahr, and Uwe R. Zimmer |
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609 | Chapter 17: Aerial Collective Systems Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Sabine Hauert, Timothy Stirling, Severin Leven, James Roberts, and Dario Floreano |
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661 | Chapter 18: Collective Systems in Space and for Planetary Explorations Dario Izzo, Christos Ampatzis, and Tobias Seidl |
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695 | Chapter 19: Nanorobotics: A Perspective Aristides A. G. Requicha |
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707 | Chapter 20: Minimalistic Large-Scale Microrobotic Systems Oliver Scholz, Angel Dieguez, and Paolo Corradi |
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745 | Chapter 21: Chemical Swarm Robots Peter Grancic and Frantisek Stepanek |
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773 | Chapter 22: Performing Collective Tasks with Flagellated Bacteria Acting as Natural and Hybrid Microrobots Sylvain Martel |
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