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There are examples of robotic systems in which autonomous mobile robots self-assemble into larger connected entities. However, existing systems display little or no autonomous control over the shape of the connected entity thus formed. We describe a novel distributed mechanism that allows autonomous mobile robots to self-assemble into pre-specified patterns. Global patterns are ‘grown’ using locally applicable rules and local visual perception only. In this study, we focus on the low-level navigation and directional self-assembly part of the pattern formation process. We analyse the precision of this mechanism on real robots.
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Christensen, A.L., O’Grady, R., Dorigo, M. (2007). A Mechanism to Self-Assemble Patterns with Autonomous Robots. In: Almeida e Costa, F., Rocha, L.M., Costa, E., Harvey, I., Coutinho, A. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_72
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