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GenerateDataUniformControlCol... generates data for Figure 8: CollisionCheck
ParseGenerateDataUniformContr... creates a plot (Figure 8: CollisionCheck) showing the effect of robot size and number of robots on
jasontron2012() Currently makes a movie of NUMROBOTS moving to attack an older sister and
parseMove2Target this function finds the average and std of the error from hardware
parsePathLength requires data from PathLengthl.m
PathLengthl.m
uniformControl.m
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Range and Bearing Control of an Ensemble of Robots

17 Sep 2012 (Updated 21 Sep 2012)

Game for steering many robots to fire suction-cup darts at a target.(note: still under development.)

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Description	Jason Fox uses one joystick to simultaneously steer 64 robots in order to fire suction-cup darts at his big sister. Aaron Becker's research shows that this is possible --- provided each robot is slightly different. The video shows a sequence of moves that achieve this goal (paper in preparation). (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXlFXKJX8vE) Also includes all the code used for this paper, including motion planning code for an ensemble of unicycles and collision checking software With thanks to Bill Amend and Jason Fox: http://www.foxtrot.com/2012/01/01082012 A. Becker, "Ensemble Control of Robotic Systems," PhD Thesis , 2012. overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v4KUBfzbv0 hardware experiments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50gb5WMqJbY Note that the above video does not incorporate collision or obstacle avoidance, which was demonstrated in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W8Sc2FwhxM
Acknowledgements	This file inspired Feedback Control Of Many Differential Drive Robots With Uniform Control Inputs.
Required Products	MATLAB
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.13 (R2011b)

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21 Sep 2012	Added supporting code (motion planner for ensemble and code to generate graphs and plots for paper)