Collective robotic environments; Emergence; Robotic behavior

In a ubiquitous environment, intellignet functions are embedded in objects around the user, thus enabling him to create variuos functionalities by combining those objects. The collaborative robotic environments are a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which usually consist of numerous, relatively simple, small sized robots. The CORE-TX system (COllaborative Robotic Environment - the Timisoara eXperiment) is conceived as a complex platform composed by a heterogeneous set of autonomous microsystems with embedded intelligence, a collaborative communication environment and a central entity with supervising functions. This paper describes the general architecture of the CORE-TX system, the system model; this paper also contains a brief comparison bBetween CORE-TX and state-of-the-art collaborative environments.