Symbrion
![]() | This article relies too much on references to primary sources. (March 2008) |
Symbrion | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Commercial? | No |
Type of project | Swarm robotics |
Location | European Union |
Owner | Funded by the European Commission |
Established | 2008 |
Closed | 2013 |
Status | Closed |
Symbrion (Symbiotic Evolutionary Robot Organisms) is a project funded by the European Commission between 2008 and 2013 to develop a framework in which a homogeneous swarm of miniature interdependent robots can co-assemble into a larger robotic organism to gain problem-solving momentum.
One of the key aspects of Symbrion is inspired by the biological world: an artificial genome that allows storing and evolution of suboptimal configurations in order to increase the speed of adaptation.
The SYMBRION project does not start from zero; previous development and research from projects I-SWARM and the open-source SWARMROBOT serve as a mounting point. A large part of the developments within Symbrion is open-source and open-hardware.
Co-operating universities[]
- Universität Stuttgart, Germany (Coordination)
- Universität Graz, Austria
- Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
- Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
- Flanders Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium
- University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
- University of York, UK
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique, France
- Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
See also[]
External links[]
Categories:
- Robotics projects
- Multi-robot systems
- 2008 in robotics