Kilobot: A low cost robot with scalable operations designed for collective behaviors

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 966-975

  Rubenstein, Michael ^a   Ahler, Christian ^a   Hoff, Nick ^a   Cabrera, Adrian ^a,b   Nagpal, Radhika ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Modular robot; Multi robot system; Robot collectives

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MACHINE DESIGN; MODULAR ROBOTS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

CO-OPERATING ROBOTS; COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; COLLECTIVE ROBOTS; CONTROL METHODS; FORMATION CONTROL; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; ROBOTIC SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS RESEARCH;

ROBOT PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84901188640     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2013.08.006     Document Type: Article

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