A robot experiment in site selection

Abstract

In this chapter, we aim at exploring the efficacy and the robustness of the collective decision-making strategies in real-world conditions. We consider the Direct Modulation of Majority-based Decisions applied to a binary site-selection scenario and perform a series of robot experiments using a swarm of 100 Kilobots. In doing so, we aim both at testing whether this strategy is sufficiently simple to be implemented using robots with limited hardware and at exploring its robustness to robot failures.