Energy Efficient Swarm Deployment for Search in Unknown Environments

• Presented at: 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10th 2010
• Published in: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), vol. 6234, p. 562-563. Dorigo, Marco (ed.)
• Series: Lecture Notes in COmputer Science (LNCS) 6234
• Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2010

This paper introduces three strategies to deploy a swarm of robots in unknown environments for a search task, aiming to reduce the total swarm energy cost with rapid operation for applications such as disaster mitigation. We are motivated by current research on flying robot swarms.

Keywords: energy efficiency ; swarm ; search ; robotics ; deployment ; diminiswhing returns ; distributed ; coordination

Reference

• EPFL-CONF-150047
• doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_61
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• URL: http://lis.epfl.ch/~stirling/videos/Swarm_Search.avi

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