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AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Collective Construction Using Lego Robots
hibition: Extended Abstract Social insects, such as ants and termites, collectively build large and complex structures, with many individuals following simple rules and no centrali...
Crystal Schuil, Matthew Valente, Justin Werfel, Ra...
IROS
2007
IEEE
113views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Collective construction of environmentally-adaptive structures
— We describe decentralized algorithms by which a swarm of simple, independent, autonomous robots can build two-dimensional structures using square building blocks. These structu...
Justin Werfel, Donald E. Ingber, Radhika Nagpal
ICALT
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Agency Architecture for Teacher Intervention in Robotics Classes
Teachers working in robotics classes face a major problem: how to keep track on individual students’ or even small groups’ progress in a class of 30-40 students. An agency app...
Ilkka Jormanainen, Yuejun Zhang, Erkki Sutinen, Ki...
TEI
2010
ACM
160views Hardware» more  TEI 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
Think globally, build locally: a technological platform for low-cost, open-source, locally-assembled programmable bricks for edu
“Programmable bricks” are microcontroller-based devices that can be used in various educational projects, such as robotic prototypes, environmental sensing, and interactive ar...
Arnan Sipitakiat, Paulo Blikstein
GECCO
2008
Springer
161views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
Neuro-evolution for a gathering and collective construction task
In this paper we apply three Neuro-Evolution (NE) methods as controller design approaches in a collective behavior task. These NE methods are Enforced Sub-Populations, MultiAgent ...
D. W. F. van Krevelen, Geoff S. Nitschke