Simulating Multi-Robot Construction in ARGoS

by Michael Allwright, Navneet Bhalla, Carlo Pinciroli, and Marco Dorigo
Feburary 2017

Table of Contents
  1. Abstract
  2. Supplementary Videos
  3. Technical Report
  4. References

1. Abstract

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

2. Supplementary Videos

Playlist:
  • Staircase Demo (Hardware)
  • Staircase Demo (Simulation)
  • Pyramid Demo (Simulation)

3. Technical Report

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].

4. References

[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.