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Swarm robotics is a topic that focuses on studying a system composed of many homogeneous robots that collaborate to achieve a common goal. Swarm robotics presents several exciting challenges for engineers, with the development of controllers being one of the most critical. For this purpose, models and simulators have been developed to allow designers to test their designs. This paper presents a swarm robot simulator, made in Matlab, whose objective is to study robot aggregation, which is considered an essential swarm behavior. Simulations and results of a classical algorithm for environment-guided aggregation are presented to determine its ability to aggregate robots and how its efficiency is affected by environmental variations.
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Acevedo, O., Rios, Y.Y., Duque, J., Gomez, E., García, L. (2022). A Software for Simulating Robot Swarm Aggregation. In: Figueroa-García, J.C., Franco, C., Díaz-Gutierrez, Y., Hernández-Pérez, G. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1685. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20611-5_32
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