Literature Review

Short-Range Infrared Communication for Swarm Mobile Robots

F. Arvin, K. Samsudin and A. R. Ramli, "A Short-Range Infrared Communication for Swarm Mobile Robots," 2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems, Singapore, 2009, pp. 454-458, doi: 10.1109/ICSPS.2009.88. 

This paper discusses the implementation of local communication between homogeneous robots using infrared. 

Imitation of Honeybee Aggregation with Collective Behavior of Swarm Robots

Farshad Arvin farshadarvin@yahoo.com , Khairulmizam Samsudin , Abdul Rahman Ramli & Masoud Bekravi (2011) Imitation of Honeybee Aggregation with Collective Behavior of Swarm Robots, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 4:4, 739-748, DOI: 10.1080/18756891.2011.9727825

This paper proposes the idea of using the aggregation behavior of honey bees as seen in nature as a blueprint for the swarming behavior of numerous robots.

Vehicles

Braitenberg, Valentino (1987). Vehicles. Behaviorism 15 (1):63-66.

'Vehicles' taps into an almost philosophical review regarding machines and what they are. In continuous succession, the book elaborates from a once simple machine, into a complex one that can effectively navigate it's environment.