Swarmanoid Project
EU FP7 research project (2006-2010) led by IRIDIA at Universite Libre de Bruxelles; designed heterogeneous foot-bot, hand-bot, and eye-bot swarm robot systems.
Swarmanoid was a European Commission FP7 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET-OPEN) research project (grant IST-022888) running from October 2006 to September 2010. The project's scientific objective was the design, implementation, and control of a novel heterogeneous distributed robotic system composed of small autonomous robots capable of dynamic physical connection in three-dimensional environments. The project extended prior work from the Swarm-bots project to 3D settings and produced three complementary robot types: foot-bots (ground mobility), hand-bots (manipulation and climbing), and eye-bots (aerial perception).
Five research laboratories participated: IRIDIA at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium, project coordinator), the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione at CNR (Italy), the Laboratoire de Systemes Robotiques at EPFL (Switzerland), the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL (Switzerland), and IDSIA at the Universita della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland). IRIDIA, led by Professor Marco Dorigo, is a world leader in swarm intelligence research, including ant colony optimisation (ACO) and swarm robotics. The Swarmanoid project contributed foundational algorithms and hardware platforms for heterogeneous swarm coordination that continue to influence swarm robotics research.
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+32 2 650 27 29HEADQUARTERS
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Founded
2006
Primary Role
Research Institute
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Primary Region
Europe
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