On Self-Optimized Self-Assembling of Heterogeneous Multi-robot Organisms
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چکیده
This chapter is devoted to a bio-inspired self-assembling of heterogeneous robot modules into specific topological configurations. The approach involves several algorithmic inspirations from biological regulatory networks for achieving environmental dependability and considers constraint-based optimization techniques for finding optimal connections between heterogeneous modules. Scalability and locality of sensor information are addressed.
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