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A Comprehensive Survey on Decentralized Modular Swarm Robotic systems and Deployment Environments
Tamer Yousef Abukhalil, Madhav Patil, Tarek Sobh
Pages - 44 - 60     |    Revised - 15-05-2013     |    Published - 30-06-2013
Volume - 7   Issue - 2    |    Publication Date - June 2013  Table of Contents
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KEYWORDS
Decentralized Swarm Intelligence, Modular Robotics, Swarm System Behavior, Swarm Robot Interactive Software, Decentralized Robots Control.
ABSTRACT
This paper presents the results of a comprehensive investigation of the current state of swarm robotics research, organizing and classifying that research into a preliminary taxonomy. We aim to provide an analysis of existing swarm systems in an attempt to define the starting point of potential algorithms leading to the development of a new swarm system platform and software design. In other words, we provide a detailed summary of systems that have been classified under four main categories of the general multi-robot system platforms, namely: selfreconfigurable, modular, self-replicating, and swarm systems. We present a preliminary taxonomy for swarm robotics and classify existing studies into this taxonomy. In later sections of this survey, we do not only address the fact that there is a shortage of available software packages and interfaces that are integrated with capabilities to distribute decentralized algorithms over the swarm system, but also we introduce the challenges of having such software/application for controlling multiple expandable and reconfigurable swarm agents.
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Mr. Tamer Yousef Abukhalil
University of Bridgeport - United States of America
tamer405@gmail.com
Mr. Madhav Patil
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University University of Bridgeport, 06604, Bridgeport, USA - United States of America
Dr. Tarek Sobh
Department of Computer Science and Engineering University University of Bridgeport, 06604, Bridgeport, USA - United States of America


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