Distributed Control Algorithms for Robotic Swarms

This is a project funded by DARPA to study and create self-organizing, emerging swarm behaviors. Indivdual robot behaviors are designed to create powerful, complex behaviors in a swarm. This project focused on how groups of simple robots can work as a team to accomplish sophisticated tasks: including exploration, mapping, and detection.

The project was done in collaboration with iRobot and HRL Laboratories. Robot behaviors were first evalutated in simulation and then in real robots.

For further details:

J. Rothermich, I. Ecemis, P. Gaudiano (2004) Distributed Localization and Mapping with A Robotic Swarm. in Proc. of the Swarm Robotics Workshop at the Eight Int. Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior SAB-04, E. Sahin and W. Spears, editors, July 2004, Los Angeles, CA. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2004). In Press.