Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction
Abstract
We propose a 2D simulation system for multi-agent collective construction (MACC) based on simple line-following intelligent machines (SLIM) - small differential drive mobile robots. Our MACC-SLIM system alleviates the high upfront cost of implementing MACC on real hardware. Our system builds upon widely available resources, namely a standard LCD screen and commodity mobile robots, allowing researchers and schools easier access to MACC hardware implementation. We test the system on plans generated by an optimal state-of-the-art MACC algorithm, demonstrating there are still non-insignificant synchronization delays. The MACC-SLIM system allows us to observe bottlenecks, parallelism, and possible execution failures of plans generated by the MACC algorithms.
BibTeX
@article{Rameš_Surynek_2025, title={Accessible Hardware Implementation for Multi-Agent Collective Construction}, volume={39}, url={https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/35368}, DOI={10.1609/aaai.v39i28.35368}, abstractNote={We propose a 2D simulation system for multi-agent collective construction (MACC) based on simple line-following intelligent machines (SLIM) - small differential drive mobile robots. Our MACC-SLIM system alleviates the high upfront cost of implementing MACC on real hardware. Our system builds upon widely available resources, namely a standard LCD screen and commodity mobile robots, allowing researchers and schools easier access to MACC hardware implementation. We test the system on plans generated by an optimal state-of-the-art MACC algorithm, demonstrating there are still non-insignificant synchronization delays. The MACC-SLIM system allows us to observe bottlenecks, parallelism, and possible execution failures of plans generated by the MACC algorithms.}, number={28}, journal={Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, author={Rameš, Martin and Surynek, Pavel}, year={2025}, month={Apr.}, pages={29688-29690} }