Swarm Coordinate System

Overview

Using the hop count method in simulation in C of a system of Kilobots (created by Prof. Michael Rubenstein at Northwestern University), I created a local coordinate system based on the ideas in the paper by Nagpal et al here.

Implementation

Using the local coordinate system, I then programmed the robots to self-organize their lights depending on their position in the local coordinate system and relative to each other to form the shape of the Northwestern University “N”.

Resources:

• KiloBot starter code from Dr. Michael Rubenstein
• “[Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Ad Hoc Sensor Network”(https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d8ea/3f18d2f18a69ad774f1ac7cb34ce573d7067.pdf)

Author

• Mark Dyehouse -ThePenultimatum

Acknowledgments

• Dr. Michael Rubenstein (Northwestern U.)