Groß, RoderichBonani, MichaelMondada, F.Dorigo, Marco2006-10-092006-10-092006-10-09200610.1109/TRO.2006.882919https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/235022WOS:0002428153000049816In this paper, we discuss the self-assembling capabilities of the swarm-bot, a distributed robotics concept that lies at the intersection between collective and self-reconfigurable robotics. A swarm-bot comprises autonomous mobile robots called s-bots. S-bots can either act independently or self-assemble into a swarm-bot by using their grippers. We report on experiments in which we study the process that leads a group of s-bots to self-assemble. In particular, we present results of experiments in which we vary the number of s-bots (up to 16 physical robots), their starting configurations and the properties of the terrain on which self-assembly takes place. In view of the very successful experimental results, swarmbot qualifies as the current state of the art in autonomous selfassembly.self-assemblyreconfigurablemodularcollectiveautonomousdistributedswarm-botswarm-robotics[MOBOTS]SWARM_BOTStext::journal::journal article::research article