TECHNIQUE: BRON (BLUETOOTH ROBOT-ORIENTED NETWORK)
PUBLICATION DATE: February 22, 2013
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics
SUMMARY:
Using Bluetooth, coordination, and agent-based techniques to create a team of robots; sending and receiving Bluetooth messages, data, and commands among robots, between a robot and a computer, and between an Android smart phone and a robot.
Two or three connected NXT micro-controllers do make a network. But does a network automatically mean we have a team? Unfortunately not. If only making the Bluetooth connection did produce a team, life would be so much easier. In our case the Bluetooth connection is what makes a network of robots possible and the network is what makes a team possible. You can have a network with no teamwork. Teamwork is the result of organizing and coordinating the team members to accomplish some task together.
