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Build Robot Teams That Communicate, Coordinate, Adapt, and Recover Together

Controlling one robot is a programming problem. Coordinating several robots introduces an entirely different set of challenges.

Every agent must maintain a unique identity, report its position and condition, interpret information from teammates, reject stale messages, preserve safe separation, follow collective rules, and respond appropriately when another robot disconnects or fails.

Swarm Robotics with Python provides a practical, simulation-first introduction to programming coordinated teams of wheeled robots and drones. Readers learn how multiple machines can exchange information, maintain formations, divide work, avoid conflicts, and complete shared missions.

Rather than presenting a swarm as several identical scripts running at the same time, the book explains how individual robot decisions contribute to measurable group behaviour. It covers centralised, decentralised, distributed, and hybrid control while connecting every major concept to working code, observable movement, and defined performance metrics.

Inside this project-based guide, you will learn how to:

• Distinguish an ordinary multi-robot system from a coordinated swarm
• Understand autonomous agents, shared objectives, local sensing, limited communication, redundancy, and adaptation
• Compare centralised, decentralised, distributed, and hybrid controllers
• Decide when mission-level coordination should remain central
• Preserve local obstacle avoidance and emergency stopping on each robot
• Build an organised Python robotics workspace
• Use virtual environments, configuration files, reusable modules, automated tests, and structured logs
• Simulate coordinated ground robots in Webots

The principal software pathways include Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, Webots, ROS 2, cflib, Crazyswarm2, PX4 simulation, and MAVSDK. The book introduces these tools according to the scale and platform of the project rather than forcing one framework onto every robot team.

The normal and failure-injection runs are designed to complete the required coverage without collisions when enough healthy agents remain. The project combines registration, shared state, formation travel, task allocation, local safety, heartbeat monitoring, failure recovery, and performance reporting.

Whether you are a Python learner, robotics student, drone developer, maker, educator, ROS 2 beginner, or engineer exploring multi-agent systems, this guide provides an organised path from three simulated ground robots to complete inspection and aerial-survey teams.

Build one dependable agent. Exchange trustworthy state. Add robots gradually. Measure the collective result. Inject failures before hardware reveals them.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Swarm Robotics with Python
• Podnázev: Code Multiple Drones and Wheeled Robots to Communicate, Coordinate, and Maintain Stable Formations
• Autor: Eleanor Sloane
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 216
• EAN: 9798189512599
• ID: 53370857
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 269 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Datum vydání: 28. July 2026

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