Review - Stigmergy

Question 1

Werfel et al.

Answer 1

• extended stigmergy: leverage a robot’s or a block’s ability to localize itself to simplify the construction rules

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* Werfel, J., Nagpal, R.: Extended stigmergy in collective construction. IEEE Intell. Syst. 21(2), 20–28 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1109/mis.2006.25
* Werfel, J., Petersen, K., Nagpal, R.: Designing collective behavior in a termiteinspired robot construction team. Science 343(6172), 754–758 (2014). https://doi. org/10.1126/science.1245842

Question 2

Sugawara and Doi

Answer 2

• has the building materials guide the robots to where building material should be added

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* Sugawara, K., Doi, Y.: Collective construction by cooperation of simple robots and intelligent blocks. In: Kubota, N., Kiguchi, K., Liu, H., Obo, T. (eds.) ICIRA 2016. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 9834, pp. 452–461. Springer, Cham (2016). https://doi.org/10. 1007/978-3-319-43506-0 40
* Sugawara, K., Doi, Y.: Collective construction of dynamic equilibrium structure through interaction of simple robots with semi-active blocks. In: Chong, N.-Y., Cho, Y.-J. (eds.) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. STAR, vol. 112, pp. 165–176. Springer, Tokyo (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55879-8 12

Question 3

Allwright et al.

Answer 3

• an open-source multi-robot construction system: BuilderBot + Stigmergic Block

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* Allwright, M., Zhu, W., Dorigo, M.: An open-source multi-robot construction system. HardwareX 5, e00050 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2018.e00050