The use of large groups of robots, generally called swarms, has gained increased attention in recent years. In this paper, we present and experimentally validate an algorithm that allows a swarm of robots to navigate in an environment containing unknown obstacles. A coordination mechanism based on dynamic role assignment and local communication is used to help robots that may get stuck in regions of local minima. Experiments were performed using both a realistic simulator and a group of real robots and the obtained results showed the feasibility of the proposed approach. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Marcolino, L. S., & Chaimowicz, L. (2008). Experiments in the coordination of large groups of robots. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5249 LNAI, pp. 268–277). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88190-2_32
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