Modular Robotics, Multi-Agent or Swarm Robotics, and Utility Fog

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Publications

• 1994 "Advantages and Disadvantages of Swarms" Kevin Kelly)
• May 1994 "Kinematics of a Metamorphic Robotic System" (Gregory Chirijian)
• Jul. 1994 "Utility Fog, Part I" (J. Storrs Hall)
• 1995 "Hyper-Redundant Manipulator Dynamics: A Continuum Approximation" (G.S. Chirikjian)
• Dec. 1995 "The Construction and Utilization of Space Filling Polyhedra for Active Mesostructures" (Forrest Bishop)
• 1996 "Evaluating Efficiency of Self-Reconfiguration in a Class of Modular Robots" (Gregory Chirikjian, Amit Pamecha, Imme Ebert-Uphoff)
• May 1996 "LEGO(TM)s to the Stars: Active MesoStructures, Kinetic Cellular Automata, and Parallel Nanomachines for Space Applications" (Tihamer Toth-Fejel) Also
• Jun. 1996 "Amorphous Computing" (Harold Abelson, Thomas F. Knight, Gerald Jay Sussman)
• Oct. 1996 "Whither Microbots?" (Ralph Hollis) PDF
• 1997 "Cooperative Multiagent Robotic Systems" (Ronald C. Arkin, Tucker Balch)
• May 1997 "Social Entropy: A New Metric for Multi-Robot Teams" (T. Balch)
• Jul. 1997 "Learning Roles: Behavioral Diversity in Robot Teams" (T. Balch)
• Aug. 1997 "Useful Metrics for Modular Robot Motion Planning" (Amit Pamecha, Imme Ebert-Uphoff, Gregory S. Chirikjian)
• 1998 "Implementing Schema-theoretic Models of Animal Behavior in Robotic Systems" (Khaled S. Ali, Ronald C. Arkin)
• 1998 "The Self-reconfiguring Robotic Molecule" (K. Kotay, C. McGray, D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• 1998 "The Self-reconfiguring Robotic Molecule: Design and Control Algorithms" (K. Kotay, C. McGray, D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• 1998 "Behavioral Diversity in Learning Robot Teams" (Tucker Balch, Ph.D. dissertation)
• 1998 "Distributed Control of Multi-Robot Teams: Cooperative Baton Passing Task" (Lynne E. Parker)
• 1999 "Behavior-based Formation Control for Multi-Robot Teams" (Tucker Balch, Ronald C. Arkin)
• 1999 "Self-reconfiguration Planning with Compressible Unit Modules" (D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• 1999 "Multiagent Telerobotics: Matching Systems to Tasks" (Khaled S. Ali, Ph.D. dissertation)
• Apr. 1999 "Teaching Robots to Cooperate" (DOE)
• Aug. 1999 "A Beacon System for the Localization of Distributed Robotic Teams" (L.E. Navarro-Serment, C.J.J. Paredis, P.K. Khosla) PDF
• Sep. 1999 "Modularity in Small Distributed Robots" (L.E. Navarro-Serment, R. Grabowski, C.J.J. Paredis, P.K. Khosla) PDF
• 2000 "A physical implementation of the Self-Reconfigurable Crystalline Robot" (D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• 2000 "A basis for Self-repair Robots using Self-Reconfiguring Crystal Modules" (R. Fitch, D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• 2000 "A basis for Self-reconfiguring Robots using Crystal Modules" (D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• Jul. 2000 "Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems" (Tucker Balch, Lynne E. Parker, eds.) TOC only
• Sep. 2000 "Robot Watch: Atomic Bonds" (Fenella Saunders, Discover Magazine)
• Dec. 2000 "The Physics of Gridlock" (Stephen Budiansky)
• Jan. 2001 "Crystalline Robots: Self-reconfiguration with Compressible Unit Modules" (D. Rus, M. Vona) Also
• tbd "Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism" (Tucker Balch, Lynne E. Parker, eds.)
  TOC only

People

• Akella, Srinivas
• Arkin, Ronald C.
• Balch, Tucker R.
• Bishop, Forrest See Also
• Casal, Arancha
• Chen, I-Ming
• Chirikjian, Gregory S. See Also
• Duff, David
• Ethridge, Elana C.
• Gini, Maria
• Hall, John Storrs
• Homans, Sam
• Huang, Wes
• Kotay, Keith D.
• Parker, Lynne E.
• Roufas, Kimon
• Rybski, Paul Edmund
• Suh, Joh
• Toth-Fejel, Tihamer Also
• Veloso, Manuela
• Vona, Marsette
• Yim, Mark Also
• Zhang, Ying

Organizations

• Carnegie Mellon University Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory MultiRobot Lab
• DARPA/Michigan State University (Microrobot Project)
• DARPA/Microsystems Technology Office (Distributed Robotics) Current Project Overviews
• Dartmouth Robotics Lab (Dartmouth College, Department of Computer Science) Daniela Rus Self-reconfiguring robots
• Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory (Multiagent Robotic Systems)
• German National Research Center for Information Technology, Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AIS)
• Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL) -- Distributed Self-Reconfiguration of 3-D Homogenous Modular Structure
• Nagoya University (Fukuda Laboratory)
• Northwestern University -- Shared Semantic Representations for Coordinating Distributed Robot Teams (DARPA Program)
• ORNL (Cooperating Autonomous Robots)
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Algorithmic Robotics Lab
• University of Minnesota Center for Distributed Robotics DARPA Program
• University of Southern California (USC/ISI CONRO Project) DARPA Program
• Xerox/PARC (Modular Reconfigurable Robots) DARPA Program

Links

• Agent Formation Behaviors (Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory)
• Allumette -- a family of small robots (ETHZ)
• Amorphous Computing HomePage
• The Ants: A Community of Microrobots (MIT)
• Cellular Robotic System (CEBOT) (Fukuda Laboratory, Nagoya University) See Also
• Cooperating Autonomous Robots (ORNL)
• Cooperative Autonomous Systems (CAS) (German National Research Center for Information Technology)
• Crystalline Atomic Unit Modular Self-reconfigurable Robot (Marsette Vona)
• Digital Clay (Xerox/PARC)
• Distributed Robotics (University of Minnesota)
• Fractal Robot Web Site Medical Applications
• Grey Walter Online Archive See Also
• I-Cubes: A Modular Self-Reconfiguring Bipartite Robotic System (Advanced Mechatronics Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University)
• Learning Robot Teams (Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory)
• Metamorphic Robots (JHU) Also
• MinDART -- Minnesota Distributed Autonomous Robotics Team
• Modular Reconfigurable Robot and Manufacturing Systems
• Modular Reconfigurable Robots (Xerox/PARC)
• Molecule Robot (Dartmouth Robotics Lab)
• Multiagent Robotic Systems (Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory)
• Nonprehensile Mobile Manipulation (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• ORNL Cooperative Robotics Publications
• PolyBot: Massively Distributed Modular Reconfigurable Robots (Xerox/PARC)
• Polypod: Locomotion with a Unit Modular Reconfigurable Robot (Stanford, Xerox/PARC) See Also
• Programmable Materials
• Proteo: Morphing Robots (Stanford, Xerox/PARC)
• Publications of Lynne E. Parker on Multirobotics
• Reactive Control for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems in Hostile Environments (Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory)
• Reconfigurable Adaptable MicroRobots (DARPA/Michigan State University Microrobot Project)
• Reconfigurable Modular Manipulator System
• RoboCup Also RoboCup-2001
• Robot Coverage (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Spider Link Models (USC/ISI CONRO Project)
• Swarm Simulator in Java (William Ware)
• Team Teleautonomy (Georgia Tech, Mobile Robot Laboratory)
• Utility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of (J.Storrs Hall)