Ant Intelligent Robot: A Versatile and Low Cost Miniature Mobile Robot Platform for Swarm Robotics Research and Education

Dan Novischi, Adina Florea
2016 Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)  
In this paper we present the Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR), a miniature mobile platform designed for swarm robotic research and education. The proposed system has a modular and distributed architecture that provides the necessary versatility, robustness and user accessibility to enable the study of a broad range of applications, while achieving a low cost. We also present a comparison between AIR and other platforms that were recently used in collective experiments. Mobile robot platform, modular
more » ... design, distributed hardware architecture, small size robot, multi-robot systems. E-Puck [10][16][22]. These platforms have processing power ranging from 20MHz -400 MHz, provide range and local . BICT 2015, December 03-05, New York City, United States
doi:10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262874 dblp:journals/sg/NovischiF16 fatcat:7pcn2o6nsrh4boufv247tpmq6e