News Finding: Such a mission would require that the robots be able to determine, on their own, which tasks to perform and in what order to perform them; for instance, there is no use attempting to pull a victim out of rubble if the rubble has not yet been cleared.
Paper Finding: The results show that the two assumptions of Mark I can be overcome (Figs.
News Context: Such a mission would require that the robots be able to determine, on their own, which tasks to perform and in what order to perform them; for instance, there is no use attempting to pull a victim out of rubble if the rubble has not yet been cleared. The results of their research are published in Science Robotics this Wednesday, July 18. This study demonstrates, for the first time, that robots are able to collectively determine a sequence of actions whose required order was previously unknown.
Paper Context: The exploration of the permutation tree is distributed. The results show that the two assumptions of Mark I can be overcome (Figs. 4, D and E, and 7): The task sequencing problem can be solved even if no immediate feedback is received by the robots, and the tasks are more than three.