Research Article
Optical Networking in a Swarm of Microrobots
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_19, author={Paolo Corradi and Thomas Schmickl and Oliver Scholz and Arianna Menciassi and Paolo Dario}, title={Optical Networking in a Swarm of Microrobots}, proceedings={Nano-Net. Third International ICST Conference, NanoNet 2008, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-16, 2008, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={NANO-NET}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={micro-optics optical communication microrobotics swarm intelligence}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_19} }- Paolo Corradi
Thomas Schmickl
Oliver Scholz
Arianna Menciassi
Paolo Dario
Year: 2012
Optical Networking in a Swarm of Microrobots
NANO-NET
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_19
Abstract
Swarm Microrobotics aims to apply Swarm Intelligence algorithms and strategies to a large number of fabricated miniaturized autonomous or semi-autonomous agents, allowing collective, decentralized and self-organizing behaviors of the robots. The ability to establish basic information networking is fundamental in such swarm systems, where inter-robot communication is the base of emergent behaviors. Optical communication represents so far probably the only feasible and suitable solution for the constraints and requirements imposed by the development of a microrobotic swarm. This paper introduces a miniaturized optical communication module for millimeter-sized autonomous robots and presents a computer-simulated demonstration of its basic working principle to exploit bio-inspired swarm strategies.
