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PuzzleBots:机器人群体的物理耦合

PuzzleBots: Physical Coupling of Robot Swarms

Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University(卡内基梅隆大学机器人研究所)

Sha Yi, Zeynep Temel, Katia Sycara

摘要:

机器人群已经被证明可以通过机器人间的协作来提高单个机器人的能力。在本文中,我们提出了PuzzleBots -一个低成本的机器人群体系统,机器人可以物理上相互耦合,形成功能结构,以最小的能量消耗,同时保持个人的流动性,在环境中导航。每个机器人都有旋钮和孔沿其身体的两侧,使机器人可以通过插入旋钮到孔耦合。我们提出了表征旋钮设计和多达九个机器人的间隙交叉行为的结果。我们用硬件实验表明,机器人能够相互耦合以跨越间隙,并解耦以执行单独的任务。我们预计PuzzleBots将在非结构化环境中作为个人和耦合系统在现实世界中的应用是有用的。

英文摘要:

Robot swarms have been shown to improve the ability of individual robots by inter-robot collaboration. In this paper, we present the PuzzleBots - a low-cost robotic swarm system where robots can physically couple with each other to form functional structures with minimum energy consumption while maintaining individual mobility to navigate within the environment. Each robot has knobs and holes along the sides of its body so that the robots can couple by inserting the knobs into the holes. We present the characterization of knob design and the result of gap-crossing behavior with up to nine robots. We show with hardware experiments that the robots are able to couple with each other to cross gaps and decouple to perform individual tasks. We anticipate the PuzzleBots will be useful in unstructured environments as individuals and coupled systems in real-world applications.

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