Handbook of Collective Robotics
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Collective Robotics

Fundamentals and Challenges

  1. 962 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Handbook of Collective Robotics

Fundamentals and Challenges

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This book is devoted to mechatronic, chemical, bacteriological, biological, and hybrid systems, utilizing cooperative, networked, swarm, self-organizing, evolutionary and bio-inspired design principles and targeting underwater, ground, air, and space applications. It addresses issues such as open-ended evolution, self-replication, self-development,

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction to Collective Robotics: Reliability, Flexibility, and Scalability
  5. PART I: FUNDAMENTALS I. MIDDLE-SIZE AND NETWORKED SYSTEMS
  6. Chapter 2: The Swarm-Bot Experience: Strength and Mobility through Physical Cooperation
  7. Chapter 3: Architectures and Control of Networked Robotic Systems
  8. Chapter 4: Cooperative Robotics in Robocup Soccer is Not Just Playing a Game
  9. Chapter 5: Evolving Collective Control, Cooperation, and Distributed Cognition
  10. Chapter 6: Reliability and Fault Tolerance in Collective Robot Systems
  11. Chapter 7: Collective Reconfigurable Systems: Fundamentals of Self-Reconfiguration Planning
  12. PART II: FUNDAMENTALS II. LARGE-SCALE AND SWARM SYSTEMS
  13. Chapter 8: Self-Organized Robotic Systems: Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly Using Miniature Robots
  14. Chapter 9: Biomimetic and Bioinspired Design of Collective Systems
  15. Chapter 10: Improving the Scalability of Collective Systems
  16. Chapter 11: Collective Foraging: Cleaning, Energy Harvesting, and Trophallaxis
  17. Chapter 12: Individual, Social, and Evolutionary Adaptation in Collective Systems
  18. Chapter 13: Replicators: From Molecules to Organisms
  19. PART III: CHALLENGES
  20. Chapter 14: Developmental Collective Robotics: Advantages and Challenges of Unbounded Self-Development
  21. Chapter 15: A General Methodology for the Control of Mixed Natural-Artificial Societies
  22. Chapter 16: Underwater Robot Swarms: Challenges and Opportunities
  23. Chapter 17: Aerial Collective Systems
  24. Chapter 18: Collective Systems in Space and for Planetary Explorations
  25. Chapter 19: Nanorobotics: A Perspective
  26. Chapter 20: Minimalistic Large-Scale Microrobotic Systems
  27. Chapter 21: Chemical Swarm Robots
  28. Chapter 22: Performing Collective Tasks with Flagellated Bacteria Acting as Natural and Hybrid Microrobots
  29. Bibliography
  30. Back Cover