{"title":"Evolve-Ability of the Robot Platform in the Symbrion Project","authors":"F. Schlachter, E. Meister, S. Kernbach, P. Levi","doi":"10.1109/SASOW.2008.31","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In a swarm of robots the individual entities can profit from cooperation, emerge new behaviors and can increase the overall fitness. In a more advanced approach, robots work not only collectively, but can also aggregate into multi-robot organisms and can share energy, resources and functionality. This approach provides many advantages for robotic systems: the aggregated organism, considered as one robot, possesses an extended reliability, adaptivity and evolve-ability. In this paper we present the vision and the ongoing work in the large integrated European project \"SYMBRION\", dealing with self-assembling of swarm robots. We point out different challenges in the field of hardware and software as well as describe main principles of evolve-ability applied to the platform.","PeriodicalId":447279,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SASOW.2008.31","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In a swarm of robots the individual entities can profit from cooperation, emerge new behaviors and can increase the overall fitness. In a more advanced approach, robots work not only collectively, but can also aggregate into multi-robot organisms and can share energy, resources and functionality. This approach provides many advantages for robotic systems: the aggregated organism, considered as one robot, possesses an extended reliability, adaptivity and evolve-ability. In this paper we present the vision and the ongoing work in the large integrated European project "SYMBRION", dealing with self-assembling of swarm robots. We point out different challenges in the field of hardware and software as well as describe main principles of evolve-ability applied to the platform.