@inproceedings{aksak-sensys05,
author = {Aksak, Burak and Bhat, Preethi Srinivas and Campbell,
Jason D. and De~Rosa, Michael and Funiak, Stanislav and Gibbons,
Phillip B. and Goldstein, Seth Copen and Guestrin, Carlos and
Gupta, Ashish and Helfrich, Casey and Hoburg, James F. and Kirby,
Brian and Kuffner, James and Lee, Peter and Mowry, Todd C. and
Pillai, Padmanabhan and Ravichandran, Ramprasad and Rister,
Benjamin D. and Seshan, Srinivasan and Sitti, Metin and Yu,
Haifeng},
title = {Demo Abstract: Claytronics---highly scalable
communications, sensing, and actuation networks.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on
Embedded networked sensor systems (SenSys)},
venue = {International conference on Embedded networked sensor
systems (SenSys)},
year = {2005},
pages = {299},
url = {http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/papers/aksak-sensys05.pdf},
doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1098918.1098964},
keywords = {Demos},
abstract = {We propose a demonstration of extremely scalable modular
robotics algorithms developed as part of the Claytronics Project
(http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~claytronics/), as well as a
demonstration of proof-of-concept prototypes. Our effort
envisions multi-million-module robot ensembles able to morph into
three-dimensional scenes, eventually with sufficient fidelity so
as to convince a human observer the scenes are real. Although
this work is potentially revolutionary in the sense that it holds
out the possibility of radically altering the relationship
between computation, humans, and the physical world, many of the
research questions involved are similar in flavor to more
mainstream systems research, albeit larger in scale. For
instance, as in sensor networks, each robot will incorporate
sensing, computation, and communications components. However,
unlike most sensor networks each robot will also include
mechanisms for actuation and motion. Many of the key challenges
in this project involve coordination and communication of sensing
and actuation across such large ensembles of independent units.},
}
