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Stochastic Jumping Robots for Large-scale Environmental Sensing
  • Julian Hird,
  • Andrew Conn,
  • Sabine Hauert
Julian Hird
University of Bristol, Bristol Robotics Laboratory

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Andrew Conn
University of Bristol, Bristol Robotics Laboratory
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Sabine Hauert
University of Bristol, Bristol Robotics Laboratory
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Abstract

Single-use jumping robots that are mass-producible and biodegradable could be quickly released for environmental sensing applications. Such robots would be pre-loaded to perform a set number of jumps, in random directions and with random distances, removing the need for onboard energy and computation. Stochastic jumpers build on embodied randomness and large-scale deployments to perform useful work. This paper introduces simulation results showing how to construct a large group of stochastic jumpers to perform environmental sensing, and the first demonstration of robot prototypes that can perform a set number of sequential jumps, have full-body sensing, and are well suited to be made biodegradable. 
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25 Oct 2021Submitted to AISY Interactive Papers
26 Oct 2021Published in AISY Interactive Papers
May 2022Published in Advanced Intelligent Systems volume 4 issue 5 on pages 2100219. 10.1002/aisy.202100219