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Swarm robotics is an approach to the coordination of multiple robots as a system which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment. This approach emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects, ants and other fields in nature, where swarm behaviour occurs.

• 2Goals and applications

Definition[edit]

The research of swarm robotics is to study the design of robots, their physical body and their controlling behaviours. It is inspired but not limited by^[1] the emergent behaviour observed in social insects, called swarm intelligence. Relatively simple individual rules can produce a large set of complex swarm behaviours. A key-component is the communication between the members of the group that build a system of constant feedback. The swarm behaviour involves constant change of individuals in cooperation with others, as well as the behaviour of the whole group.

Unlike distributed robotic systems in general, swarm robotics emphasizes a large number of robots, and promotes scalability, for instance by using only local communication.^[2] That local communication for example can be achieved by wireless transmission systems, like radio frequency or infrared.^[3]

Goals and applications[edit]

Miniaturization and cost are key factors in swarm robotics. These are the constraints in building large groups of robots; therefore the simplicity of the individual team member should be emphasized. This should motivate a swarm-intelligent approach to achieve meaningful behavior at swarm-level, instead of the individual level.
Much research has been directed at this goal of simplicity at the individual robot level. Being able to use actual hardware in research of Swarm Robotics rather than simulations allows researchers to encounter and resolve many more issues and broaden the scope of Swarm Research. Thus, development of simple robots for Swarm intelligence research is a very important aspect of the field. The goals include keeping the cost of individual robots low to allow scalability, making each member of the swarm less demanding of resources and more power/energy efficient.

One such swarm system is the LIBOT Robotic System^[4] that involves a low cost robot built for outdoor swarm robotics. The robots are also made with provisions for indoor use via Wi-Fi, since the GPS sensors provide poor communication inside buildings. Another such attempt is the micro robot (Colias),^[5] built in the Computer Intelligence Lab at the University of Lincoln, UK. This micro robot is built on a 4 cm circular chassis and is low-cost and open platform for use in a variety of Swarm Robotics applications.

Applications[edit]

Potential applications for swarm robotics are many. They include tasks that demand miniaturization (nanorobotics, microbotics), like distributed sensing tasks in micromachinery or the human body. One of the most promising uses of swarm robotics is in disaster rescue missions. Swarms of robots of different sizes could be sent to places rescue workers can't reach safely, to detect the presence of life via infra-red sensors. On the other hand, swarm robotics can be suited to tasks that demand cheap designs, for instance mining or agricultural foraging tasks.

More controversially, swarms of military robots can form an autonomous army. U.S. Naval forces have tested a swarm of autonomous boats that can steer and take offensive actions by themselves. The boats are unmanned and can be fitted with any kind of kit to deter and destroy enemy vessels.^[6]

During the Syrian Civil War, Russian forces in the region reported attacks on their main air force base in the country by swarms of fixed-wing drones loaded with explosives.^[7]

Most efforts have focused on relatively small groups of machines. However, a swarm consisting of 1,024 individual robots was demonstrated by Harvard in 2014, the largest to date.^[8]

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Another large set of applications may be solved using swarms of micro air vehicles, which are also broadly investigated nowadays. In comparison with the pioneering studies of swarms of flying robots using precise motion capture systems in laboratory conditions,^[9] current systems such as Shooting Star can control teams of hundreds of micro aerial vehicles in outdoor environment^[10] using GNSS systems (such as GPS) or even stabilize them using onboard localization systems^[11] where GPS is unavailable.^[12][13] Swarms of micro aerial vehicles have been already tested in tasks of autonomous surveillance,^[14] plume tracking,^[15] and reconnaissance in a compact phalanx.^[16] Numerous works on cooperative swarms of unmanned ground and aerial vehicles have been conducted with target applications of cooperative environment monitoring,^[17]simultaneous localization and mapping,^[18] convoy protection,^[19] and moving target localization and tracking.^[20]

Drone displays[edit]

A drone display commonly uses multiple, lighted drones at night for an artistic display or advertising.

In popular culture[edit]

A major subplot of Disney's Big Hero 6 involved the use of swarms of microbots to form structures.

Swarm robotics is used in the Tamil film, Enthiran, and its sequel 2.0.

See also[edit]

• Unmanned aerial vehicle/Quadcopter

References[edit]

1. ^Hunt, Edmund R. (2019-03-27). 'The social animals that are inspiring new behaviours for robot swarms'. The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
2. ^Hamann, H. (2018). Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach. New York: Springer International Publishing. ISBN978-3-319-74528-2.
3. ^N. Correll, D. Rus. Architectures and control of networked robotic systems. In: Serge Kernbach (Ed.): Handbook of Collective Robotics, pp. 81-104, Pan Stanford, Singapore, 2013.
4. ^Zahugi, Emaad Mohamed H.; Shabani, Ahmed M.; Prasad, T. V. (2012), 'Libot: Design of a low cost mobile robot for outdoor swarm robotics', 2012 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), pp. 342–347, doi:10.1109/CYBER.2012.6392577, ISBN978-1-4673-1421-3
5. ^Arvin, F.; Murray, J.C.; Licheng Shi; Chun Zhang; Shigang Yue, 'Development of an autonomous micro robot for swarm robotics,' Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2014 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.635,640, 3-6 Aug. 2014 doi: 10.1109/ICMA.2014.6885771
6. ^Lendon, Brad. 'U.S. Navy could 'swarm' foes with robot boats'. CNN.
7. ^Madrigal, Alexis C. (2018-03-07). 'Drone Swarms Are Going to Be Terrifying and Hard to Stop'. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
8. ^'A self-organizing thousand-robot swarm'. Harvard. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
9. ^Kushleyev, A.; Mellinger, D.; Powers, C.; Kumar, V., 'Towards a swarm of agile micro quadrotors' Autonomous Robots, Volume 35, Issue 4, pp 287-300, November 2013
10. ^Vasarhelyi, G.; Virágh, C.; Tarcai, N.; Somorjai, G.; Vicsek, T. Outdoor flocking and formation flight with autonomous aerial robots. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014
11. ^Faigl, J.; Krajnik, T.; Chudoba, J.; Preucil, L.; Saska, M. Low-Cost Embedded System for Relative Localization in Robotic Swarms. In ICRA2013: Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2013.
12. ^Saska, M.; Vakula, J.; Preucil, L. Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles Stabilized Under a Visual Relative Localization. In ICRA2014: Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. 2014.
13. ^Saska, M. MAV-swarms: unmanned aerial vehicles stabilized along a given path using onboard relative localization. In Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). 2015
14. ^Saska, M.; Chudoba, J.; Preucil, L.; Thomas, J.; Loianno, G.; Tresnak, A.; Vonasek, V.; Kumar, V. Autonomous Deployment of Swarms of Micro-Aerial Vehicles in Cooperative Surveillance. In Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). 2014.
15. ^Saska, M.; Langr J.; L. Preucil. Plume Tracking by a Self-stabilized Group of Micro Aerial Vehicles. In Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, 2014.
16. ^Saska, M.; Kasl, Z.; Preucil, L. Motion Planning and Control of Formations of Micro Aerial Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control. 2014.
17. ^Saska, M.; Vonasek, V.; Krajnik, T.; Preucil, L. Coordination and Navigation of Heterogeneous UAVs-UGVs Teams Localized by a Hawk-Eye Approach. In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 2012.
18. ^Chung, Soon-Jo, et al. 'A survey on aerial swarm robotics.' IEEE Transactions on Robotics 34.4 (2018): 837-855.
19. ^Saska, M.; Vonasek, V.; Krajnik, T.; Preucil, L. Coordination and Navigation of Heterogeneous MAV–UGV Formations Localized by a ‘hawk-eye’-like Approach Under a Model Predictive Control Scheme. International Journal of Robotics Research 33(10):1393–1412, September 2014.
20. ^Kwon, H; Pack, D. J. A Robust Mobile Target Localization Method for Cooperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Sensor Fusion Quality. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 65, Issue 1, pp 479-493, January 2012.

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