New Orleans, Louisiana
June 26, 2016
June 26, 2016
June 29, 2016
978-0-692-68565-5
2153-5965
Manufacturing
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10.18260/p.25597
https://peer.asee.org/25597
3517
Yanjun Yan received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (China), and the M.S. degree in Applied Statistics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University. She is an assistant professor in engineering and technology at Western Carolina University. Her research interests are statistical signal processing, diagnostics, and particle swarm optimization.
Dr. Jack is the Cass Ballenger Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Department Head of the School of Engineering and Technology within Western Carolina University. His interests include robotics, automation, and product design.
A Kilobot is a small inexpensive robot, designed by the Self-Organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard University, with features that enable researches to test collective algorithms on hundreds or thousands of robots (called a swarm) without logistical problems such as programming and power cycling consuming an unacceptable amount of time.1. This paper illustrates a tested procedure on how to construct a Kilobot Swarm and programming platform. These procedures were created from a combination of the original Kilobot documents made available by Harvard University2, other materials later released by Harvard3, as well as some additional insight and modifications.
Thomas, N. T., & Yan, Y., & Jack, H. (2016, June), MAKER: A Kilobot Swarm Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.25597
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