Demo: DotBot, a cm-Scale, Easy-to-Use Micro-Robot for Swarm Research

Said Alvarado-Marin, Alexandre Abadie, Filip Maksimovic, Martina Balbi, Trifun Savic, Thomas Watteyne.

Workshop on Breaking Swarm Stereotypes, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, 17 May 2024. 

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This paper introduces DotBot, a cost-effective, easy-to-use micro-robot designed for swarm robotics research. DotBot is a 10 cm, differential-drive mobile robot that offers fast speeds (up to 1 m/s), accurate localization using the Lighthouse V2 system, and secure internet-based control via MQTT. With a total material cost of approximately 40 EUR per unit, DotBot aims to lower the barrier of entry for researchers and educators in swarm robotics. The system was successfully demonstrated at the “Breaking Swarm Stereotypes” workshop at ICRA 2024, where it received the “Best Demo Award”.

 

Read the paper: https://hal.science/hal-04673787

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