TYOC#43/52 Channel switching
The Year of CoCoRo 43/52: Last week we showed that our robots can also communicate in murky waters when blue light communication is blocked. We showed radio-frequency, electric potential fields and magnetism. However, also those channels can be disturbed or blocked, as there are natural magnetic fields, natural electrical charges and WiFi is also easily disturbed. So it is crucial for the swarm to dynamically choose the appropriate communication channel. This short video shows an on-table experiment in which two Jeff robots dynamically choose between blue-light and RF communication. Of course one can just always send and receive with all channels, but this might just jam the channels on the one hand and maximizes the waste of energy (battery time) on the other hand. So a dynamic choice of just one channel is a preferential setup and our CoCoRo robots are capable of doing this.