Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots
Published on 16. February 2001
Book
Hardback
222 pages
978-1-86058-318-6 (ISBN)
Description
An important title in the 'Engineering Research Series', Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots presents research on one of the most exciting areas of technology associated with robotics - co-ordinated teams, or groups, of tiny robots. These act colonially and behave as a body, or collect data individually, to feed information to a single data retrieval point, offering a network of information. Intercommunication between many tiny robots allows for problem areas to be detected and concentrated upon, bringing the pack of robots together.
The developments and research reported here show the ways in which engineers are trying to mimic biological systems and behaviour to find solutions to engineering problems. Dr Melhuish's research aims to analyse various naturally occurring collective systems as models for robotic system development. He applied the results of observations of biological system behaviour among social insects, such as ants, to robot activity. Much of Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots is concerned with a review of the remarkable achievements of groups of simple insects and the observation that collective achievement can far exceed the sum of individual performances. Although at an early stage of development and management, collective robotic technology has created a high level of interest from those involved in R & D among professional engineers.
COMPLETE CONTENTS:
Introduction
Background, issues, and related work
Minimalist locomotion
Collective minimalist movement
Minimalist regulation of group size
Collective minimalist action on the environment
Collective minimalist clustering
Collective minimalist sorting and segregation
Conclusions and further work.
The developments and research reported here show the ways in which engineers are trying to mimic biological systems and behaviour to find solutions to engineering problems. Dr Melhuish's research aims to analyse various naturally occurring collective systems as models for robotic system development. He applied the results of observations of biological system behaviour among social insects, such as ants, to robot activity. Much of Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots is concerned with a review of the remarkable achievements of groups of simple insects and the observation that collective achievement can far exceed the sum of individual performances. Although at an early stage of development and management, collective robotic technology has created a high level of interest from those involved in R & D among professional engineers.
COMPLETE CONTENTS:
Introduction
Background, issues, and related work
Minimalist locomotion
Collective minimalist movement
Minimalist regulation of group size
Collective minimalist action on the environment
Collective minimalist clustering
Collective minimalist sorting and segregation
Conclusions and further work.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 303 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
1162 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86058-318-6 (9781860583186)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Chris Melhuish is the author of Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots, published by Wiley.
Content
Background issues and related work; minimalist locomotion; collective minimalist movement; minimalist regulation of group size; collective minimalist action on the environment; collective minimalist clustering; computer minimalist sorting and segregation.