Title
Fast and robust self-organization for micro-electro-mechanical robotic systems
Abstract
Microrobots are low-power and low-capacity memory devices that can sense and act. They perform various missions and tasks in a wide range of applications including odor localization, firefighting, medical service, surveillance and security, search and rescue. To achieve these tasks nodes should reconfigure their physical topology to another target organization. The self-organization is one of the most challenging tasks in MEMS applications. In this paper, we propose a distributed and efficient parallel self-organization protocol for chains of MEMS nodes. This protocol is memory-efficient because it does not use the predefined positions of the target shape, which reduces the memory usage to a constant complexity. Our algorithm is implemented in a real environment simulator called DPRSim, the Dynamic Physical Rendering Simulator.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.comnet.2015.08.043
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
MEMS microrobot,Distributed algorithm,Self-reconfiguration,Self-organization,Logical topology
Robotic systems,Logical topology,Search and rescue,Microelectromechanical systems,Computer science,Self-organization,Network topology,Distributed algorithm,Rendering (computer graphics),Distributed computing,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
93
P1
1389-1286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.41
24
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hicham Lakhlef111216.86
Bourgeois Julien240363.53