Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Swarm Robotics uses collections of simple robots, which collaborate to accomplish tasks faster, and at a lower cost than more complex robot individuals.A major segment of the Swarm Robotics market will operate indoors; patrolling secure facilities, sorting packages in a warehouse or cleaning commercial buildings.As the swarm focuses on collaboration, effective communication is essential.The cost of installing power and network cables thus poses a significant barrier to entry for facilities lacking wireless networking.We tackle this problem by introducing a 'peel and stick' backhaul for swarm robot telemetry that operates for several years on a D-cell battery.Our solution is tiered, using a time-synchronized mesh network as its backhaul and near-field communication between the robots and the mesh, with 𝜇W-scale listening power.Our evaluation demonstrates that this architecture achieves over 90% reliability, low power consumption and long battery life.
Source: Lirias
Authors: Liu, Mengyao, Sampaio, Luiz, Oostvogels, Jonathan, O'Riordan, Kate, Michiels, Sam, Watteyne, Thomas, Hughes, Danny
Language: English
Subfield: Mechanical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4415319291