Review Article
An Introduction to Swarm Robotics
Table 1
Taxonomy axes and explanation from Dudek et al. [
8].
| Axis | Description |
| Collective size | Number of robots in the collective. | Communication range | Maximum communication range. | Communication topology | Of the robots in the communication range, those which can be communicated with. | Communication Bandwidth | How much information the robots can send to each other. | Collective reconfigurability | The rate at which the organisation of the collective can be modified. | Process ability | The computational model used by the robots. | Collective composition | Are the robots homogeneous or heterogeneous. |
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