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Swarm Robotics: Remarks on Terminology and Classification

Authors : Aufar Zakiev, Tatyana Tsoy, Evgeni Magid

Published in: Interactive Collaborative Robotics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Swarm robotics is a fast-growing field of research in recent years. As studies count increases, the terminology requires a revision in order to provide a proper level of unification and precision - even a unique “swarm robotics” term needs to be established. Since there are multiple types of collective robotics approaches and corresponding methodology, swarm robotics field terminology must be explicitly distinguished from others. In this paper, we attempt to compare and refine definitions that had been proposed in previous researches. We demonstrate relations between swarm robotics and concepts of adjacent fields including multi-agent systems, multi-robot systems and sensor networks.

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Title: Swarm Robotics: Remarks on Terminology and Classification
Authors: Aufar Zakiev
Tatyana Tsoy
Evgeni Magid
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Interactive Collaborative Robotics
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-99581-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-99582-3

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99582-3_30

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