StiCo in Action (Demonstration)
Bijan Ranjbar-Sahraei, Sjriek Alers, Karl Tuyls, Gerhard Weiß · 2013
StiCo is a Stigmergic Coverage approach, which is previ-ously designed for dispersion of robots in a communication-limited environment. In contrast to the existing coverage approaches, StiCo does not rely on direct communication between robots, and does not require any data storage or computational power for the robots. The main building block of StiCo is using environmental markers for transfer-ring information between robots. Therefore, in this paper the practical requirements for implementation of StiCo in a real world experiment with a swarm of e-pucks are described and the coverage behavior of StiCo is validated by various experiments.