Self-Replicating Hierarchical Modular Robotic Swarms
Code for the paper: "Self-Replicating Hierarchical Modular Robotic Swarms".
Interactive Web Demos
- Robot Self-Replication
- Discrete Robotic Parametric Design Tool
- Serial Vs Hierarchical Construction
- Build Sequence Visualization
- Small Path Planning Demo (2 levels)
- Large Path Planning (3 levels)
Copyright
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Citation
Amira Abdel-Rahman, Christopher Cameron, Benjamin Jenett, Miana Smith and Neil Gershenfeld. Self-Replicating Hierarchical Modular Robotic Swarms. Nature Communications Engineering. Under review.
@article{,
title={Self-Replicating Hierarchical Robotic Swarms},
author={Abdel-Rahman, Amira and Cameron, Christopher and Jenett, Benjamin and Smith, Miana and Gershenfeld, Neil},
journal={Communications Engineering},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
year={2022},
publisher={Nature Publishing Group}
}
Related Work
Code was also used for the swarm simulations in:
Benjamin Jenett, Amira Abdel-Rahman, K. Cheung, and Neil Gershenfeld. Material-robot system For assembly of discrete cellular structures. In Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). IEEE, 2019. Link.