Colony of robots: New challenge
The evolution on Robotics has in a cross way of application. For one side is the applications to manufacturing, other one is application to medicine, another one in space exploration and it is starting home applications. It is very popular to have contest of robots for students, motivating very well to student, supported by universities, achieving good image for the institutions. One way for mobile robots is Nomad, a nice application for having new knowledge in the space, but the inversion it is very expense and complex. If it has problem or fail, all the work will stop. Instead of that, if you use a community of robots, working like a society of insect, it is possible to have simpler mobile robots to have specific tasks, less expensive, more reliable to reach the same aims. In this presentation is focusing in colony of robots. This implies to merge several disciplines based on models of communities, to have control of a society of robots working together in a collaborative and cooperative way in non structured environments.
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