機構的相互作用を用いた群口ボットの協調段差踏破の実現

抄録

As one of the cooperation systems composed of a lot of robots, we focus on a system that cooperates with each other by using its own body like the army ant. In general, group cooperative behaviors require a lot of sensors and complicated networks. However, the whole system gets difficult as the number of robots increases. Instead of these complicated network-based approach, we aim to construct a system with the aid of the robot body, what we call the mechanical approach. In this paper, we conduct a climbing experiment to examine the validity of the mechanical approach.