Research Article
A Tuple Space for Data Sharing in Robot Swarms
@ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262503, author={Carlo Pinciroli and Adam Lee-Brown and Giovanni Beltrame}, title={A Tuple Space for Data Sharing in Robot Swarms}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing}, volume={2}, number={9}, publisher={ACM}, journal_a={CC}, year={2016}, month={5}, keywords={swarm robotics, collective robotics, information sharing, stigmergy}, doi={10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262503} }- Carlo Pinciroli
Adam Lee-Brown
Giovanni Beltrame
Year: 2016
A Tuple Space for Data Sharing in Robot Swarms
CC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262503
Abstract
In this paper, we present a system to allow a swarm of robots to agree on a set of (key,value) pairs. This system enables a form of information sharing that has the potential to be an asset for coordination in complex environments, such as globally optimized task allocation. Taking inspiration from the environment-mediated communication of social insects, we call the system virtual stigmergy. Experimental evaluation indicates that virtual stigmergy can work in a wide variety of running conditions including heavy packet loss, and can cope with random motion trajectories.
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