Session WedAT1 Pegaso A Wednesday, October 10, 2012 ... - Lirmm

Session WedCVT8 Gemini 1 Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 11:00–12:30
Soft Robots
Chair Sungchul Kang, Korea Inst. of Science & Tech.
Co-Chair Barbara Mazzolai, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
12:20–12:25 WedCVT8.7
“Can ants inspire robots?“
Self-organized decision making in robotic swarms
Arne Brutschy, Eliseo Ferrante, Marco Dorigo, Mauro Birattari
IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Alexander Scheidler
Fraunhofer Institute for Energy System Technology, Germany
� The k-unanimity rule allows a group to find
the shortest among several actions
� The method is based solely on local
interactions
� Robots observe the opinion of other robots
and change their own if necessary
� The opinion of the group converges with a
high probability to the shortest action
� No teams need to be formed and the
accuracy of the decision can be adjusted
� The video shows an experiment with a
swarm of 10 robots
12:25–12:30 WedCVT8.8
A Single Motor Actuated Miniature Steerable
Jumping Robot
Jianguo Zhao, Ning Xi
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA
Fernando J. Cintrón, Matt W. Mutka, and Li Xiao
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, USA
• A miniature steerable jumping robot is
designed and developed.
• The robot can jump, steer, and self-right
using a single motor;
• The robot has a maximum length 6.5cm
and weighs 23.5 grams with battery;
• Experimental results show the robot can
jump 90cm in height;
• The robot has wide applications ranging
from search and rescue in disasters,
environmental monitoring, to military
surveillance.
2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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Jumping robot in action