An optical interface for inter-robot communication in a swarm of microrobots

O.  Alonso; A. Diéguez; R. Casanova; A. Sanuy; O. Scholz; P. Corradi; J. Samitier

1st International ICST Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination

Research Article

An optical interface for inter-robot communication in a swarm of microrobots

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.ROBOCOMM2007.2194,
    author={O.  Alonso and A. Di\^{e}guez and R. Casanova and A. Sanuy and O. Scholz and P. Corradi and J. Samitier},
    title={An optical interface for inter-robot communication in a swarm of microrobots},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={ROBOCOMM},
    year={2011},
    month={12},
    keywords={Swarm robot communication transimpedance amplifier low power.},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.ROBOCOMM2007.2194}
}

O. Alonso
A. Diéguez
R. Casanova
A. Sanuy
O. Scholz
P. Corradi
J. Samitier
Year: 2011
An optical interface for inter-robot communication in a swarm of microrobots
ROBOCOMM
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.ROBOCOMM2007.2194

O. Alonso¹^,*, A. Diéguez¹, R. Casanova¹, A. Sanuy¹, O. Scholz², P. Corradi³, J. Samitier¹

1: SiC, Electronics Department, University of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain
2: IBMT, Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering. Fraunhofer, Germany
3: CRIM, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Pisa, Italy

*Contact email: oalonso@el.ub.es

Abstract

It is described the optical communication interface for short-range communications of robots in a microrobotic swarm between thousands of units. The robots, of 27 mm3-size, will be deployed in an arena of A4 sheet size with controlled illumination conditions. The communication between robots is done via IR light. The interface can handle variations of IR background light from point to point in the arena, deals with robot different orientation and distance, i.e., the amplitude of the signal to be detected, and with interferences of other robots. The interface has been designed to manage the low energy available in the robot.

Keywords: Swarm robot communication transimpedance amplifier low power.

Published: 2011-12-07
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.ROBOCOMM2007.2194