Ant Intelligent Robot: A Versatile and Low Cost Miniature Mobile Robot Platform for Swarm Robotics Research and Education

• Main Authors: Dan Novischi, Adina Florea
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) 2016-12-01
• Series: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games
• Subjects: mobile robot platform; modular design; distributed hardware architecture; small size robot; multi-robot systems
• Online Access: http://eudl.eu/doi/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262874
• ISSN: 2034-8800

In this paper we present the Ant Intelligent Robot (AIR), a miniature mobile platform designed for swarm robotic research and education. The proposed system has a modular and distributed architecture that provides the necessary versatility, robustness and user accessibility to enable the study of a broad range of applications, while achieving a low cost. We also present a comparison between AIR and other platforms that were recently used in collective experiments.