Name of Paper

Flocking by the fusion of sonar and active infrared sensors on physical autonomous mobile robots


Authors

I.D. Kelly and D.A. Keating


Published

The Third Int. Conf. on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice. 1996, Guimaraes, Portugal. Vol. 1, pp 1/1 - 1/4.


Abstract

In this paper we present a group of small autonomous mobile robots which are equipped with simple ultrasonic sonar for detecting obstacles and an active infrared communication and localisation system. The infrared system can be used for both transferring information between the robots and finding the relative positions of the other robots with respect to each other. By fusing the information from these two different sensors the robots have been programmed to flock using a simple reactive architecture.


Electronic copy

mech96.ps.Z (1.4M)