An Approach to the Development of Flexible Multirobot Systems: the Potential of Using Mobile Code Technology

Building multirobot systems exploiting mobile code technologies: this is quite an attractive possibility that, if successfully exploited, could very much improve the flexibility in development of systems composed of multiple mobile robots. In this paper we present two main contributions that constitute a significant step toward this ambitious scenario. In particular, we present architectural and technological solutions that enable both the mobility of code in a network of robots and the interfacing between robotic platforms and mobile code. Although we are aware that the results presented in this paper are still preliminary and limited, we demonstrate their promising potential with experiments involving two mobile robots.