AAAI Conference 2025 System Paper
Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction
- Martin Rameš
- Pavel Surynek
We propose a 2D simulation system for multi-agent collective construction (MACC) based on simple line-following intelligent machines (SLIM) - small differential drive mobile robots. Our MACC-SLIM system alleviates the high upfront cost of implementing MACC on real hardware. Our system builds upon widely available resources, namely a standard LCD screen and commodity mobile robots, allowing researchers and schools easier access to MACC hardware implementation. We test the system on plans generated by an optimal state-of-the-art MACC algorithm, demonstrating there are still non-insignificant synchronization delays. The MACC-SLIM system allows us to observe bottlenecks, parallelism, and possible execution failures of plans generated by the MACC algorithms.