Swarms Robots

and their

applications

Yazdani Hasan
Department of Computer
Application Sri Satya Sai
University of Technology &
Medical Sciences, Bhopal,
India.
Abstract: Swarm robotics is a
new approach to the
coordination of multirobot
systems which consist of
large
numbers of mostly simple
physical robots In this paper,
we will discuss this emerging
filed, Swarm Robots. This
filed has many applications.
We will also discuss these
applications in detail.
Keywords: Robot,
Intelligence, Swarm,
Applications.

I. Introduction
Swarm robotics is a new
approach to the coordination
of multirobot systems which
consist of large
numbers of mostly simple
physical robots. The desired
collective behaviour emerges
from the interactions
between the robots and
interactions of robots with
the environment. This
approach emerged on the
field of
artificial swarm intelligence, as
well as the biological studies
of insects, ants and other
fields in nature, where
swarm behaviour occurs.
Individuals within the group
interact by exchanging locally
available information such
that the problem (global
objective) is solved more
efficient than it would be
done by a single individual.
Problem-solving behaviour
that emerges from such
interactions is called swarm
intelligence [1-5].Swarm
robotics is the application of
swarm intelligence techniques
to the analysis of activities in
which the agents are
physical robotic devices that
can effect changes in their
environments based on
intelligent decision-making
from
various input. The goal of this
approach is to study the
design of robots such that a
desired collective behaviour
emerges from the inter-robot
interactions and the
interactions of the robots with
the environment, inspired but
not limited by the emergent
behaviour observed in social
insects.The paper is
organized in the following
manner. The Section 2 has
discussion about the swarms
robots. Section 3 has
application of swarm robots.
Section 4 has conclusion and
future work.

II. Swarm Robots

In this section we will discuss
some of the properties of
swarm robots.There are many
examples of
collectively complex behaviour
for example social insects
such as: ant’ colonies,
termites, bees, wasps …etc.,
So, a swarm intelligence
system consists typically of a
population of relatively simple
agents interacting only
locally with themselves and
with their environment,
without having a global
knowledge about their own
state
and of the state of the world
[4-9].
The swarm robots have
following properties.
1- Autonomy –individuals
that create the swarm-robotic
system are autonomous
robots. They are independent
and can interact with each
other and the environment..
2- Large number – They are
in large number so they can
cooperate with each other.
3- Scalability and robustness
– A new unit can be easily
added to the system so the
system is easily scalable.
More number of units improve
the performance of the
system. The system is quite
robust to the loosing
some units as there still
exists some units left to
perform. Though the system
will not perform up to its
maximum capabilities.
4- Decentralized coordination
– The robots communicate
with each other and with
environment to take the
final decision.
5- Flexibility- It requires the
swarm robotic system to
have the ability to generate
modularized solutions to
different tasks

III. Appications
 Swarm robots have
many applications [1-
9].Disaster rescue missions
is one of the most
important
 applications of swarms
robots. Swarms of robots
 of could be sent to places
rescue workers can't reach
this would save lives.
 Swarm robots have
many applications in mining
tasks
 Swarms robots can be
used in military to form an
autonomous army.
 Swarm robots are also
useful for autonomous
surveillance and
environment
monitoring to investigate
environmental parameters,
search for survivors, and
locate sources of hazards such
as
chemical or gas spills, toxic
pollution, pipe leaks,
radioactivity. Swarm robots
can perform tasks in which the
main goal is to cover a wide
region. The robots can
disperse and perform
monitoring tasks, for
example, in
forests. It can be useful for
detecting hazardous events,
like a leakage of a chemical
substance. In Military
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applications
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applications, it is very much
useful in detecting bomb
which is most dangerous task
for the humans.Robotics is
expected to play a major role
in the agricultural/farming
domain. Swarm robotics, in
particular, is considered
extremely relevant for
precision farming and large-
scale agricultural
applications.. Specifically, a
decentralised
monitoring/mapping scenario,
and implement a use case for
the detection and mapping of
weeds in a field by a
group of small unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Toxic waste clean-up, search
and rescue (SAR) and
collection of terrain samples
are some of the
important applications of
Swarms robots. Swarms
robots can be for Exploration
and mapping it would save
money and time. Presently,
most of the efforts are being
made in surveillance,
reconnaissance and hazard
detection.In medical fields, a
use of nano-robots moving
through human veins and
arteries (e.g. to fight certain
types of cancer). There are
many industries which use
dangerous things like burning
furnace, chemicals, making
nuclear weapons etc. Here
usage of swarms can reduce
danger in such types of
industries.The possible real
applications of swarm robotics
will take special importance
when robots get to be mass
produced and the costs
of building swarms of robots
decrease. The development
of technologies such as
MEMS (Micro-Electro-
Mechanical Systems) will
allow to create small and
cheap robots.In this way
swarms of robots can be
really
useful for dangerous tasks.For
example, for mining detection
and cleaning. The number of
possible applications
is really promising, but still the
technology must firstly be
developed both in the
algorithmic and modelling
part,
and also in the miniaturisation
technologies.
IV. Conclusion
In this paper, we discussed about the basics of Swarms Robots. We also discussed about the
applications of
Swarms Robots. This is an emerging field. In future, it will have many new applications.

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