Optimizing robotic swarm based construction tasks

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel swarm robotic system that efficiently constructs 2D shapes by combining existing approaches, inspired by social insects, addressing scalability limitations in current swarm construction methods.

Contribution

It proposes a new integrated approach that enhances the scalability and efficiency of swarm robotics for construction tasks.

Findings

Successfully constructs 2D shapes using the proposed system

Improves construction efficiency compared to previous methods

Addresses scalability issues in swarm robotic construction

Abstract

Social insects in nature such as ants, termites and bees construct their colonies collaboratively in a very efficient process. In these swarms, each insect contributes to the construction task individually showing redundant and parallel behavior of individual entities. But the robotics adaptations of these swarm's behaviors haven't yet made it to the real world at a large enough scale of commonly being used due to the limitations in the existing approaches to the swarm robotics construction. This paper presents an approach that combines the existing swarm construction approaches which results in a swarm robotic system, capable of constructing a given 2 dimensional shape in an optimized manner.