A swarm of robots using RFID tags for synchronization and cooperation

International audienceThe purpose of this paper is to show how a swarm of robots can cooperate to achieve a common task, in a totally distributed and autonomous way, by exploiting powerful clues contained in some devices that are distributed in the environment. This system exploits a coordination mechanism that is twofold, using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for spatial coordination, and wireless robot-to-robot communication for the temporal and semantic synchronization