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The Year of the CoCoRo Video #08/52: Lily emergent taxis
The EU-funded Collective Cognitive Robotics (CoCoRo) project has built a swarm of 41 autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that show collective cognition. Throughout 2015 – The Year of CoCoRo – we will be uploading a new weekly video detailing the latest stage in its development. This video shows how a swarm of Lily robots can form a coherent group by exchanging light pulses among the group members, similar to how slime-mold does in biology.
By modulating the frequency of these signals the group can alter the path of the emerging blinking wave to turn the whole group towards the aggregation target. Such a target can be any form of gradient emitting source, regardless of the type of the emitted signal. We demonstrate this here by using a light source as a target.
To learn more about the project, see this introductory post, or check out all the videos from the Year of CoCoRo on Robohub.
tags: AUV, c-Research-Innovation, CoCoRo, EU, Swarming, UAV, underwater, video
