AUTHOR
Leal Martinez, David

DEPARTMENT
Space Science, Kiruna

SUMMARY
Reconfigurable multirobot societies is a young area of robotics that promises versatility, robustness and low cost as is relies on a society of multiple robots that will be able to perform an immeasurable amount of different tasks, tasks that not even were thought of at design time. In order to create a new reconfigurable multi robot society from scratch that could be developed fast and with low costs, it was opted to create a prototype from LEGO Mindstorms NXT equipment, complemented with some expansion electronics developed to expand the capabilities of the existing LEGO Mindstorms NXT system. This work describes the successful creation of a reconfigurable multi robot society based on the LEGO Mindstorms NXT systems, as well as the description of two prototypes that were created on the way and were not successful.

ISSN 1653-0187 / ISRN LTU-PB-EX--09/074--SE / NR 2009:074