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Swarm Robotics: Past, Present, and Future [Point of View]
Summary
This article reviews the history, current state, and future directions of swarm robotics, which involves coordinating large groups of robots inspired by natural systems like insect colonies and bird flocks. While not directly related to microplastic research, swarm robotics technologies have potential applications in environmental monitoring and pollution cleanup efforts.
Swarm robotics deals with the design, construction, and deployment of large groups of robots that coordinate and cooperatively solve a problem or perform a task. It takes inspiration from natural self-organizing systems, such as social insects, fish schools, or bird flocks, characterized by emergent collective behavior based on simple local interaction rules [1], [2]. Typically, swarm robotics extracts engineering principles from the study of those natural systems in order to provide multirobot systems with comparable abilities. This way, it aims to build systems that are more robust, fault-tolerant, and flexible than single robots and that can better adapt their behavior to changes in the environment.
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