| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R79319/01 |
| Title: |
STRUCTURAL SELF-ORGANIZATION IN MINIMALIST MOBILE ROBOT NETWORKS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Melhuish, Professor C |
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| Department: |
Faculty of Environment and Technology |
| Organisation: |
University of the West of England |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 2002 |
Ends: |
31 March 2004 |
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57,179
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| Aerospace, Defence and Marine |
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The research aims to build a theoretical and practical foundation for the generation of self-organised structures built from mobile robots. The self-assembled macro-structures will be composed of robots which have limited communication range; an example might be the formation of a multi-node sensor array in space or under sea where each robot is a node. To achieve such a goal demands the exploration of a number of difficult and important problems including; scalability (can the formation shrink or grow with the deletion or addition of more robots even though an individual robot's communication range is fixed?), robustness and the selforganisation necessary for the repair of a structure. Secondary issues include the question of whether such a formation can be adaptive, i.e. change its shape in response to certain conditions. This approach requires the use of decentralized mechanisms employing local communication (where the range of robot-robot communication is significantly smaller than the 'radius' of the formation; there can be no 'instantaneous' global communication). We argue that conducting this research is important and allows the UK to be internationally competitive - particularly with the U.S.
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http://www.uwe.ac.uk |