An efficient blockchain‐based approach for cooperative decision making in swarm robotics

• DOI: 10.1002/itl2.140
• Publication Date: 2019-11-22T17:39:30Z
• Authors: Pranav K. Singh; Roshan Singh; Sunit K. Nandi; Kayhan Z. Ghafoor; Danda B. Rawat; Sukumar Nandi
• Keywords: Swarm Robotics

Swarm robotics is an emerging robotic domain that aims to accomplish complex tasks with the cooperative effort of a group simple robots. These robots communicate and share information coordinate their actions for achieving common goal. However, existing mechanisms control communications are not very secure, efficient, also rely on centralized controlling authority. It flexible, has low transparency tracking capabilities. Blockchain, decentralized technology based peer communication along smart contracts, can be potential contender addressing these challenges. blockchains resource‐intensive found suitable resource‐constrained devices. We propose blockchain‐based framework, which Proof‐of‐Authority (PoA) consensus mechanism ensure efficiency. experiment test‐bed implementation using RaspberryPi. The results obtained demonstrate PoA resource‐hungry one (unlike other state‐of‐the‐art mechanisms). blockchain in swarm provide necessary security, transparency, decentralization, reliability, autonomy, etc.