Distributed Behavior Collaboration for Self-Reconfigurable Robots

Behnam Salemi and Wei-Min Shen. Distributed Behavior Collaboration for Self-Reconfigurable Robots. In Proc. 2004 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pp. 4178–4183, New Orleans, USA, April/May 2004.

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Abstract

This paper describes a distributed and decentralized approach for modules in a self-reconfigurable robot to select appropriate behaviors based on four factors: the current global task, the local topological location in the current configuration, the local state/sensor information, and the received messages from their neighbors. This approach does not assume any unique global identifiers for the modules, and is robust for reconfigurations of modules. The approach is enabled by the extended neighbor topology built upon a previous local topology representation and a hormone-inspired communication and control protocols. Experimental results on the CONRO robot have shown some unique features of this approach for the control of self-reconfigurable robots in general.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{	  salemi2004distributed-behavior-collaboration-for-self-reconfigurable,
  abstract	= {This paper describes a distributed and decentralized
		  approach for modules in a self-reconfigurable robot to
		  select appropriate behaviors based on four factors: the
		  current global task, the local topological location in the
		  current configuration, the local state/sensor information,
		  and the received messages from their neighbors. This
		  approach does not assume any unique global identifiers for
		  the modules, and is robust for reconfigurations of modules.
		  The approach is enabled by the extended neighbor topology
		  built upon a previous local topology representation and a
		  hormone-inspired communication and control protocols.
		  Experimental results on the CONRO robot have shown some
		  unique features of this approach for the control of
		  self-reconfigurable robots in general.},
  address	= {New Orleans, USA},
  author	= {Behnam Salemi and Wei-Min Shen},
  booktitle	= icra-04,
  month		= {April/May},
  pages		= {4178--4183},
  title		= {Distributed Behavior Collaboration for Self-Reconfigurable
		  Robots},
  year		= {2004}
}