Videos
Delaunay Triangulation:
The robots maintain the nearest-neighbour
communication structure by creating a Delaunay triangulation and they
try to maintain a minimum distance by reacting on the current
distances to their direct neighbours.
Author: Alexander Schwab
Crossroad management:
Without traffic lights the robots have to agree about
who crosses the crossroad first based on communicated data. The
communication structure is shown by the violet arrows. Only a few
communication links suffice to ensure collision avoidance. The
intended direction is shown by the green arrows.
The first part of the video shows elementary situations, whereas the
second part illustrates the behaviour of the robots in dense traffic.
Quick motion demonstrates that there never appear long queues nor have
many robots to stop.
Author: Alexander Schwab
COCO: A flexible transportation system
50 linear motors should be controlled so as to move a
ball on a reference trajectory. The theory of multi-agent systems is
applied to coordinate the motors. Furthermore, a fault-tolerant
control scheme circumvents the obstacles represented by faulty motors.
Author: Kai Schenk