Multi-Robot Organisms: State of the Art

Serge Kernbach, Oliver Scholz, Kanako Harada, Sergej Popesku, Jens Liedke, Raja Humza, Wenguo Liu, Fabio Caparrelli, Jaouhar Jemai, Jiri Havlik, Eugen Meister, Paul Levi

Abstract: This paper represents the state of the art development on the field of artificial multi-robot organisms. It briefly considers mechatronic development, sensor and computational equipment, software framework and introduces one of the Grand Challenges for swarm and reconfigurable robotics.