The Collective Behavior of Piezoelectric Walking Microrobots: Experimental Results

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  • Giovanni Muscato
چکیده

This paper presents some experimental results concerning the collective behavior of a colony of PLIF (Piezo Light Intelligent Flea) microrobots. An introduction to the peculiarities of piezoelectric PLIF microrobots is given, and then the results of co-operation by three robots are illustrated in both simulation and a real application. From the results it emerges that the strategy implemented is robust to both external disturbances and faults in some robots.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing

دوره 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004