page_title: Swarm robotic platforms
section_title: Comparison of platforms
hierarchical_section_title: Swarm robotic platforms / Comparison of platforms
caption_attribution_description: English: Colias (open-source) micro-robot
context_page_description: Swarm robotic platforms apply swarm robotics in multi-robot collaboration. They take inspiration from nature. The main goal is to control a large number of robots to accomplish a common task/problem. Hardware limitation and cost of robot platforms limit current research in swarm robotics to mostly performed by simulation software. On the other hand, simulation of swarm scenarios that needs large numbers of agents is extremely complex and often inaccurate due to poor modelling of external conditions and limitation of computation.
context_section_description: Several mobile robot platforms have previously been developed to study swarm applications.
caption: Swarm of Colias robot
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