Single-use jumping robots that are mass-producible and biodegradable
could be quickly released for environmental sensing applications. Such
robots would be pre-loaded to perform a set number of jumps, in random
directions and with random distances, removing the need for onboard
energy and computation. Stochastic jumpers build on embodied randomness
and large-scale deployments to perform useful work. This paper
introduces simulation results showing how to construct a large group of
stochastic jumpers to perform environmental sensing, and the first
demonstration of robot prototypes that can perform a set number of
sequential jumps, have full-body sensing, and are well suited to be
made biodegradable.
Corresponding author(s)
Email: [email protected]@bristol.ac.uk
Stochastic Jumping Robots for Large-scale Environmental Sensing