• DocumentCode
    3705719
  • Title

    Y-Pod formation of swarm robots using amber force fields

  • Author

    Purushotham Muniganti;Albert Oller Pujol

  • Author_Institution
    Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision Research Group, Department of Electrical Electronics and Automation Engineering, AV. Paisos Catalns 26, Campus Sescelades, Rovira I Virgili University, 43007, Tarragona, Spain
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    320
  • Lastpage
    327
  • Abstract
    In this paper proposes a new idea inspired form molecular dynamics theory, i.e. amber force fields to form a Y-Pod formation of swarm robots. From a molecular dynamics point of view, molecules which contain large amounts of atoms form desired crystallization formations. So, we barrowed this idea and each atom is treated as an atom robot to form the desired pattern. In molecules, bond length and bond angle parameters are chosen from empirical values. However, in our task the chosen simulation tuned the parameters to eventually control the robots in terms of force fields and alignment to overcome cohesiveness and consensus problems. Finally, an implemented virtual leader carried Y-Pod formation to reach the desired destination point.
  • Keywords
    "Force","Mobile robots","Robot kinematics","Kinematics","Mathematical model","Dynamics"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2015 12th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7347787