Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks

We present the first real-world multi-robot system that can autonomously self-assemble (and dis-assemble) to form different morphologies capable of solving tasks that appear in an a priori unknown order.

Authors

• Rehan O'Grady
• Anders Christensen
• Carlo Pinciroli Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Marco Dorigo

Keywords

• Swarm robotics
• morphology control
• morphogenesis
• selfassembly