Cyborg insects refer to hybrid robots that integrate living insects with miniature electronic controllers to enable robotic-like programmable control. These creatures exhibit advantages over conventional robots in adaption to complex terrain and sustained energy efficiency. Nevertheless, there is a lack of literature on the control of multi-cyborg systems. This research gap is due to the difficulty in coordinating the movements of a cyborg system under the presence of insects' inherent individual variability in their reactions to control input. Regarding this issue, we propose a swarm navigation algorithm and verify it under experiments. This research advances swarm robotics by integrating biological organisms with control theory to develop intelligent autonomous systems for real-world applications.
翻译:赛博格昆虫指将活体昆虫与微型电子控制器集成,以实现机器人式可编程控制的混合机器人系统。相较于传统机器人,这些生物在适应复杂地形和维持能量效率方面展现出显著优势。然而,目前缺乏关于多赛博格系统控制的研究文献。这一研究空白源于赛博格系统中昆虫个体对控制输入的反应存在固有差异性,导致系统协调运动困难。针对该问题,我们提出一种群体导航算法并通过实验验证。本研究通过将生物有机体与控制理论相结合,推动群体机器人学发展,为现实应用开发智能自主系统。