A3.3.COLLECTIVE ROBOTICS
3.3.1. INTRODUCTION
Collective, or swarm-based, robotics is a relatively new field. One of the earliest
researchers in the field was Kube who demonstrated that simple robots with no
inter-robot communication could collectively push heavy objects and cluster objects
in a manner similar to ants. His robots were homogeneous.
Martinoli provides a very good introduction to the problems of creating swarms of
robots that exhibit complex distributed collective problem solving strategies. More