A Case Study on Programming Intelligent Swarm Robots Using Pyro Environment and Player/Stage Simulator

A set of robots which shows an intelligent behavior as a whole is called swarm robots. Programming real swarm robots needs a lot of financial cost because many robot hardware systems should be purchased to test the implemented swarm intelligence. In this paper, we report a case study on programming swarm intelligence to control a set of robots using Pyro. Pyro (Python Robotics) is a Python based programming environment to provide a common platform for controlling robots. In practice, Pyro is normally operates on top of a simulator such as Player/Stage. This paper reports the experience on programming swarm robots searching for target objects in a maze. The swarm robots implemented can successfully move the target objects in a maze to the home location, where the robots started from.