Plan Rehan O'Grady

Approach

1. Design Experiment
2. Get Input/Confirmation from Marco
3. Build Controller
4. Do Experiment
5. Publish

Short Term (~End March 2006)

Goal: expand functional self-assembly experiment and publish new and old work together in a journal.

Experiment

Environment: Same as previous functional self assembly experiment.

Goal

• Large group of robots must navigate over hill towards target.
• If they encounter hill, they aggregate into several two sbot swarmbots (using group size selection mechanism)
• The two-sbot swarmbots separately navigate the hill into the target zone.
• They use adaptive swarm rotation (previous work) to avoid parallel approach topple problem.

Medium Term (~September 2006)

Goal: Further experimentation to add body to Phd / publish.