The
prototypes of the swarm system (left) and a video that shows my final project
that implements serveral applications on a group of robotic agents developed by
Tamer Abukhalil and Madhav at the University of Bridgeport under the supervision
of Prof. Tarek Sobh.
The physical swarm system itself is composed of five simple and slightly
intelligent robots. Hence, robots will have very simple behaviors but the
overall high intelligence of the group is actually created by the simple acts
and moderate local intelligence of each individual robot. Each robot behavior is
determined by running different programs to cope with the changes of the overall
swarm configuration. Each program contains parameters that will be assigned to
the values initially set when starting UBSwarm interface showed below.