The Robotics Primer Workbook Developed by  USC, iRobot® and Microsoft® Robotics Studio

Categories: Exercise | Player Exercise

Group:Exercise1-Aggregating

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Algorithm 3 Initial Condition 4 End Condition 5 Files

Introduction

In this exercise, you will learn how to make a swarm of robots used for aggregation. Aggregation is grouping together into one bunch. First, set up a swarm such as shown in Group:Group Howto. Next, design a controller to achieve this purpose.

Algorithm

The algorithm for the robot controller is rather simple:

1. If you can see no blobs, turn to the right.
2. If a blob is to the left of the screen, turn left, move forward.
3. If a blob is to the right of the screen, turn right, move forward.

Initial Condition

In the initial condition, the robots should be arranged roughly as so:

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End Condition

At the end, the aggregation should group the robots together as so:

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Files

Below is an example solution for the aggregation exercise. This solution is designed to run with the following player and stage files:

exercise.cc

everything.cfg

everything.world