gyMBlocks: Gym environment for M-Blocks

The experiments here are used in the extended abstract submitted to EEML Summer School 2021.

Install

The source code relies on a few packages. To install them all, one can run: pip install -r requirements.txt

Related work

MRS 2019 Paper

Decentralized Gathering of Stochastic, Oblivious Agents on a Grid: A Case Study with 3D M-Blocks

A simple simulator for M-Blocks on a Gridworld: M-Blocks Simulator

• Associated paper
• Supplementary materials

cite

@InProceedings{ozdemir2019decentralized,
  author    = {{\"O}zdemir, Anil and Romanishin, John W. and Gro{\ss}, Roderich and Rus, Daniela},
  title     = {Decentralized Gathering of Stochastic, Oblivious Agents on a Grid: A Case Study with 3D M-Blocks},
  booktitle = {2019 International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)},
  pages={245--251},
  year={2019},
  organization={IEEE}
}

PhD Thesis

Chapter 6: Gathering on a Grid. Link to the PhD Thesis (note that it is embargoed until: 7 May 2021)

cite

@phdthesis{ozdemir2019synthesis,
	author = {{\"O}zdemir, Anil},
	school = {The University of Sheffield},
	title = {Synthesis and Analysis of Minimalist Control Strategies for Swarm Robotic Systems},
	year = {2019}}