2-Dimensional Cellular Automata Approach for Robot Grid Formations

Abstract

One potentially cost-effective approach to harvesting solar power from space is the use of thousands of individual robots moving in formation, each with a piece of solar panel attached, to form a solar panel array. In previous work, we demonstrated an algorithm that treats a group of robots as a 1-dimensional cellular automaton, which is able to establish formations defined by a single mathematical function. We now extend the algorithm to establish grid formations.

Cite

Text

Mead and Weinberg. "2-Dimensional Cellular Automata Approach for Robot Grid Formations." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.

Markdown

[Mead and Weinberg. "2-Dimensional Cellular Automata Approach for Robot Grid Formations." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2008/mead2008aaai-dimensional/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{mead2008aaai-dimensional,
  title     = {{2-Dimensional Cellular Automata Approach for Robot Grid Formations}},
  author    = {Mead, Ross and Weinberg, Jerry B.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2008},
  pages     = {1818-1819},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2008/mead2008aaai-dimensional/}
}