powered by University of Stuttgart, IPVS and by Research University of Karlsruhe, IPR

Open-source micro-robotic project

(currently the largest artificial swarm in the world)

NEW! Research within the Jasmine community is continued in the SYMBRION and REPLICATOR projects, funded by european community.



This site is devoted to development of the open-source hardware and software micro-robotic platform in the size of less-then-3cm-cube. The main goal of this project is to develop a cheap, reliable and swarm-capable micro-robot, that can be easily reproduced even at home. This robot allows building a large-scale swarm system (100 and more robots) to investigate artificial self-organization, emergent phenomena, control in large robotic groups and so on. This research is important to understand underlying principle of information and knowledge processing, adaptation and learning for the design and development of very limited autonomous systems. These systems represent the result of miniaturization processes in such fields as robotics, micro- and embedded controllers, sensor networks, non-destructing control, environmental monitoring, ubiquitous systems, medical and nano-technological research. Even today the autonomous micro-systems are of interest for entertaiment/toy industry.

Before being open-source, the idea of making a cheap, available and swarm-capable robot was born within the I-Swarm project . The original version of Jasmine robot has been developed in a cooperation between University of Stuttgart (electronic parts) and University of Karlsruhe (mechanical parts). By suggestion of EU-Comission and project' reviewers this development opens for a large auditorium as an open-source-project with the public GNU license. Later on a few other universities and companies joint to this project with the coordination of University of Stuttgart.

Currently there are two developed robot's versions: "Jasmine II" and "Jasmine III'', as well as a lot of extentions boards for them, like odometrical system, global positions system and so on. We support two "operational systems" for both versions. For providing basic capabilities of sensing, motion and communication, there exists a BIOS system. For supporting a simulation there are a few simulation packages. All, who would like to contribute, please register on this site and write in the contribution your name and institution. In this way the whole community profit from you, but also you profit from community (for operational questions please post into yahoo group "swarmrobot" ). Videos and software as well as Images and recearch papers can be found in the right-side menu.

Within the community we exchange not only hardware and software developments. To provide a test field for swarm systems we are developing a swarm game. This should be similar to robocup or robosumo but focuses mainly on the collective aspects of a robotic group.

The robot (hardware, software and simulations) underlies GNU General Public License, it means - no provit of using the public materials. However we open a way for somebody who is not interested in hardware development, but would like to buy a complete robot with support - by using "add value scheme".

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