Open AccessDevelopment of IR-Based Short-Range Communication Techniques for Swarm Robot Applications
Author(s) -
Farshad Arvin,
Khairulmizam Samsudin,
Abdul Rahman Ramli
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
advances in electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1844-7600
pISSN - 1582-7445
DOI - 10.4316/aece.2010.04010
Subject(s) - computer science , robot , swarm behaviour , range (aeronautics) , swarm robotics , human–computer interaction , distributed computing , artificial intelligence , engineering , aerospace engineering
This paper proposes several designs for a reliable infra-red based communication techniques for swarm robotic applications. The communication system was deployed on an autonomous miniature mobile robot (AMiR), a swarm robotic platform developed earlier. In swarm applications, all participating robots must be able to communicate and share data. Hence a suitable communication medium and a reliable technique are required. This work uses infrared radiation for transmission of swarm robots messages. Infrared transmission methods such as amplitude and frequency modulations will be presented along with experimental results. Finally the effects of the modulation techniques and other parameters on collective behavior of swarm robots will be analyzed