ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the idea of a cellular robotic system (CEBOT). In analogy to biologic systems muscles are hardware, nerves are communication, and brain is intelligence. The chapter also describes the existing CEBOT series II hardware and concept, including automatic approach, connection, separation, structure planning, and structure evaluation. Automatic approach is done efficiently by the series II CEBOT. Simulations showed the effectiveness of the structure generation and evaluation methods. The chapter shows that two communication methods for the undocked and docked state of CEBOT. Communications are used for cell type recognition and position finding before docking. The chapter discusses the method for the docked state of CEBOT for system operation, sensor data exchange, actuator position alteration, and malfunction detection. Error detection for the communication method described can be realized by checking transferred words for their type and checking the word order and number of cycles in a transfer sequence.
