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Re: Swarm?
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Date: 
Fri, 6 May 2005 21:34:12 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Brian Davis wrote:
   If you mean a collective group of identical robots
Swarm as in: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/03-talk.html

  

What age & resources? One idea is to provide the class with LDraw plans for the robots, so the class (a) gets experience with LEGO construction, and (b) creates all the robots for you (not to mention they’ll have a lot greater interest in the final result if they are part of it - group project trumps passive demo any day). For later, line-following robots that can draw lines (white melamine 4x8 sheets are pretty cheap, as are dry-erase markers). Robotic ants in the classroom.

Not a bad idea, to have the kids each build an identical robot, then give ‘em the swarm challenge. I was thinking just a intro demo, really, but I could turn it into curriculum. Thanks for the input!

Andrew Meyer



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(...) If you mean a collective group of identical robots interacting, sure. As a simple example, build a robot that drives towards the brightest light source, and then when the ambient brightness is above some threshold have it change behavior and (...) (19 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.robotics)

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