by Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Carlo Pinciroli, and Marco Dorigo
Feburary 2017
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On this page, we list the supplementary material for our conference paper [1], which details the plug-ins that we have developed for the ARGoS simulator. These plug-ins have been designed to enable a simulation of multi-robot construction. The videos on this page show (i) a hardware experiment where a single robot assembles a staircase from six blocks, (ii) the qualitative replication of that experiment in simulation, and (iii) an extension of that experiment where four robots collectively assemble a stepped pyramid.
Keywords: Simulation, Multi-Robot Construction, Swarm Intelligence, Swarm Robotics
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A technical report that details each of the individual plug-ins and provides examples on how to use them is available as part of the IRIDIA technical report series [2].
[1] Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Carlo Pinciroli, and Marco Dorigo. Simulating Multi-robot Construction in ARGoS, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Swarm Intelligence. pp. 188-200. Springer (2018).
[2] Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Carlo Pinciroli, and Marco Dorigo (2018). ARGoS Plug-ins for Experiments in Autonomous Construction, Technical report TR/IRIDIA/2018-007, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.