Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction
Abstract
We propose a 2D simulation system for multi-agent collective construction (MACC) based on simple line-following intelligent machines (SLIM) - small differential drive mobile robots. Our MACC-SLIM system alleviates the high upfront cost of implementing MACC on real hardware. Our system builds upon widely available resources, namely a standard LCD screen and commodity mobile robots, allowing researchers and schools easier access to MACC hardware implementation. We test the system on plans generated by an optimal state-of-the-art MACC algorithm, demonstrating there are still non-insignificant synchronization delays. The MACC-SLIM system allows us to observe bottlenecks, parallelism, and possible execution failures of plans generated by the MACC algorithms.
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Rames and Surynek. "Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35368Markdown
[Rames and Surynek. "Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2025/rames2025aaai-accessible/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35368BibTeX
@inproceedings{rames2025aaai-accessible,
title = {{Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction}},
author = {Rames, Martin and Surynek, Pavel},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2025},
pages = {29688-29690},
doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V39I28.35368},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2025/rames2025aaai-accessible/}
}