2-Dimensional Cellular Automata Approach for Robot Grid Formations

One potentially cost-effective approach to harvesting solar power from space is the use of thousands of individual robots moving in formation, each with a piece of solar panel attached, to form a solar panel array. In previous work, we demonstrated an algorithm that treats a group of robots as a 1-dimensional cellular automaton, which is able to establish formations defined by a single mathematical function. We now extend the algorithm to establish grid formations.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Ross Mead, Jerry B. Weinberg
• Keywords: 1-dimensional Cellular Automaton, AAAI 2008, Intelligent Agents, Solar Panel, Solar Panel Array