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. © ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2009.
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Corradi, P., Schmickl, T., Scholz, O., Menciassi, A., & Dario, P. (2009). Optical networking in a swarm of microrobots. In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (Vol. 3 LNICST, pp. 107–119). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02427-6_19
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