Design of the "army-ant" cooperative lifting robot

Design of the "army-ant" cooperative lifting robot

This paper describes the design and development of a new class of mobile robot. These small robots are intended to be simple and inexpensive, and will all be physically identical, thus constituting a homogeneous team of robots. They derive their usefulness from their group actions, performing physic...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE robotics & automation magazine 1995-03, Vol.2 (1), p.36-43
1. Verfasser: Bay, J.S.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cranes
Material storage
Materials handling
Mobile robots
Payloads
Performance evaluation
Robot kinematics
Robot sensing systems
Robotic assembly
Robotics and automation
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Zusammenfassung:This paper describes the design and development of a new class of mobile robot. These small robots are intended to be simple and inexpensive, and will all be physically identical, thus constituting a homogeneous team of robots. They derive their usefulness from their group actions, performing physical tasks and making cooperative decisions as a coordinated team. All mechanical and electrical design aspects are decided with the group-dynamical behavior in mind. Because of their behavioral resemblance to their insect counterparts, they have been named "army ant" robots.< >
ISSN:1070-9932
1558-223X
DOI:10.1109/100.388293