Formation and Cooperation for SWARMed Intelligent Robots

This article discusses the feature of intelligent robots, and specially emphasizes the difference between the intelligent robot and the traditional mobile robot.The behavior of a Swarmed group of intelligent robots is presented.A new Master-Slave management model has been proposed by the authors and the developed Client-Server communication protocol is reported. Section I: Intelligent Robots and Mobile RobotsAn intelligent robot is different to the traditional mobile robot.The traditional mobile robot uses a powerful microcontroller to control the movement, with the help of sensing devices it normally is able to make a tactic decision but could not do any sophisticate thinking since the limitation of the computation power provided by microcontroller.The left of Fig. 1 shows the Stamp Bobot which is equipped with Stamp microcontroller and light, touch and other sensors.