URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/1098918.1098964
Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{2005-Aksak-sensys, author = “Aksak, Burak and Bhat, Preethi Srinivas and Campbell, Jason and DeRosa, Michael and Funiak, Stanislav and Gibbons, Phillip B. and Goldstein, Seth Copen and Guestrin, Carlos and Gupta, Ashish and Helfrich, Casey and Hoburg, James and Kirby, Brian and Kuffner, James and Lee, Peter and Mowry, Todd C. and Pillai, Padmanabhan S. and Ravichandran, Ram and Rister, Benjamin D. and Seshan, Srinivasan and Sitti, Metin and Yu, Haifeng”, title = “Claytronics: Highly Scalable Communications, Sensing, and Actuation Networks”, year = “2005”, month = “November”, isbn = “159593054X”, publisher = “Association for Computing Machinery”, address = “New York, NY, USA”, url = “https://doi.org/10.1145/1098918.1098964”, doi = “10.1145/1098918.1098964”, abstract = “We propose a demonstration of extremely scalable modular robotics algorithms developed as part of the Claytronics Project (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/\textasciitilde claytronics/), as well as a demonstration of proof-of-concept prototypes. Our effort envisions multi-million-module robot ensembles able to morph into three-dimensional scenes, eventually with sufficient fidelity so as to convince a human observer the scenes are real. Although this work is potentially revolutionary in the sense that it holds out the possibility of radically altering the relationship between computation, humans, and the physical world, many of the research questions involved are similar in flavor to more mainstream systems research, albeit larger in scale. For instance, as in sensor networks, each robot will incorporate sensing, computation, and communications components. However, unlike most sensor networks each robot will also include mechanisms for actuation and motion. Many of the key challenges in this project involve coordination and communication of sensing and actuation across such large ensembles of independent units.”, booktitle = “ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)”, pages = “299”, numpages = “1”, keywords = “distributed sensor fusion, distributed planning and coordination, telepresence, modular reconfigurable robotics, collective actuation, dynamic physical rendering, programmable matter”, location = “San Diego, California, USA”, series = “SenSys ‘05” }