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A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Haghighat, Bahar  
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Martinoli, Alcherio  
2019
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)

Programmable self-assembly of modular robots offers promising means for structure formation at different scales. Rule-based approaches have been previously employed for distributed control of stochastic self-assembly processes. The assembly rate in the process directly depends on the concurrency level induced by the employed ruleset, i.e. the number of concurrent steps necessary to build one instance of the target structure. Our aim here is to design a formal synthesis algorithm to automatically derive rulesets of high concurrency for a given target structure composed of robotic modules. In the literature, self-assembly of (simulated or real) robotic modules has been realized through manually designed rulesets or manually adjusted rulesets generated by employing graph-grammar formalisms or metaheuristic methods. In this work, we employ an extended graph-grammar formalism, adapted for self-assembly of robotic modules, and propose a novel formal synthesis algorithm capable of generating rulesets for robotic modules by natively considering the morphology of their connectors. The synthesized rulesets induce a high level of concurrency in the self-assembly scheme by exploiting controlled information propagation, using solely local communication. Simulation results of microscopic (non-spatial) and submicroscopic (spatial) models of our robotic platform confirm higher performance of rulesets synthesized by our algorithm compared to related work in the literature.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-73008-0_23
Author(s)
Haghighat, Bahar  
Martinoli, Alcherio  
Date Issued

2019

Publisher

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG

Publisher place

Cham

Published in
Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems
ISBN of the book

978-3-319-73008-0

978-3-319-73006-6

Series title/Series vol.

Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics

Volume

6

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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DISAL  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
13th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)

London, ENGLAND

Nov 07-09, 2016

Available on Infoscience
December 16, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/132043
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