A Survey of Collective Movement of Mobile Robots
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems
- Vol. 10 (1), 73
- https://doi.org/10.5772/54600
Abstract
Collective movement of mobile robots is the problem of how to control a group of robots making them move as a group, in a cohesive way, towards a common direction. Collective movement serves not only to move a group of robots from one point to another, but to perform more complex tasks such as using the group of robots as a moving sensor array, collective mapping and searching tasks. In this article, a survey of collective movement of mobile robots is done, including a classification and characterization of its different types, a review of the most important architectures and a list of its promising applications.Keywords
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