Abstract
Most studies in swarm robotics treat the swarm as an isolated system of interest. We argue that the prevailing view of swarms as self-sufficient, independent systems limits the scope of potential applications for swarm robotics. A robot swarm could act as a support in an heterogeneous system comprising other robots and/or human operators, in particular by quickly providing access to a large amount of data acquired in large unknown environments. Tasks such as target identification & tracking, scouting, or monitoring/surveillance could benefit from this approach.
Abstract (translated)
大多数关于群机器人研究将群落视为一个独立系统。我们认为，将群落视为自给自足、独立系统的主流观点限制了群落机器人技术的潜在应用范围。一个机器人群落可以在包含其他机器人以及/或人类操作员的异质系统中充当支持，特别是通过迅速提供在大型未知环境中获取的大量数据的访问。诸如目标识别和追踪、侦察或监控等任务都可以从这种方法中受益。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04079
