Development and Operation of a Group of Robots Equipped with a Telescopic Mechanism for the Cooperative Transport System with the Addition and Alternation of Robots

Abstract

Cooperative transport systems by swarm robots are expected to handle a wide variety of objects. However, no studies have been reported for cases where a robot is stuck or the load is heavier than expected. This paper proposes the actual robotic system for distributing the load by adding robots or alternating the robot when a robot gets stuck. After designing the robot equipped with a telescopic mechanism, we create the autonomous flow for adding or alternating robots. It has been confirmed that the system functioned according to the designed flow throughout the object transporting experiments.