Configuration Control for Physical Coupling of Heterogeneous Robot Swarms
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2022
Abstract
In this paper, we present a heterogeneous robot swarm system that can physically couple with each other to form functional structures and dynamically decouple to perform individual tasks. The connection between robots can be formed with a passive coupling mechanism, ensuring minimum energy consumption during coupling and decoupling behavior. The heterogeneity of the system enables the robots to perform structural enhancement configurations based on specific environmental requirements. We propose a connection-pair oriented configuration control algorithm to form different assemblies. We show experiments of up to nine robots performing the coupling, gap-crossing, and decoupling behaviors.
BibTeX
@conference{Yi-2022-131422,author = {Sha Yi and Zeynep Temel and Katia Sycara},
title = {Configuration Control for Physical Coupling of Heterogeneous Robot Swarms},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
year = {2022},
month = {May},
}
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