Swarm robotics is a popular field in robotics which primarily tackles coordination with multi-robot systems. Robotarium is a remotely accessible swarm robotics research platform hosted at Georgia Tech. The robotics platform allows anyone to submit their ideas and algorithms to be tested with 1-30 tiny robots.
Project Details
- Made for: Personal Project
- Date: June, 2018
- Github: Robotarium: Ping Pong
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Skills Used:
- MATLAB
Project Story
Having a 2.5 million dollar robotics lab accessible to anyone was an easy picking to test a quick algorithm on. And what better than mimicing the first game ever programmed on a computer: Ping Pong. The Ping Pong was tested via a MATLAB simulation using 11 robots (five for each paddle and one for the ball), and then was uploaded to the Robotarium Experiments page. And the result is as follows:
MATLAB simulation of the Ping Pong algorithm
Ping Pong algorithm running on Robotarium
Citations:- Pickem, D.; Glotfelter, P.; Wang, L.; Mote, M.; Ames, A.; Feron, E. & Egerstedt, M., "The Robotarium: A remotely accessible swarm robotics research testbed" 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Singapore (submitted, available as arXiv preprint )
- Pickem, D.; Wang, L.; Glotfelter, P.; Diaz-Mercado, Y.; Mote, M.; Ames, A.; Feron, E. & Egerstedt, M., "Safe, Remote-Access Swarm Robotics Research on the Robotarium," arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.00640, 2016 ( fulltext)
- Pickem, D.; Lee, M.; Egerstedt, M. "The GRITSBot in its natural habitat - A multi-robot testbed," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 4062-4067 (fulltext )
