TYOC#50/52: OVERVIEW Scalability
The Year of CoCoRo 50/52: With the research project CoCoRo we went a long way. We started with "pools" with a size of a few cubic centimeters and with naked electronics on the table. Throughout 3.5 years we extended the size scale and the number of robots steadily. We went through aquariums, pools of various sizes, threw our robots into ponds, rivers and lakes and finally ended our experiments in salt water in the basin of the harbor of Livorno. In retrospective, our number of robots increased by a factor of 40 and the volume of the waterbody we tested them in increased by a factor of 40 million. Quite some stretch for a small project. With our new project subCULTron, which extends the work of CoCoRo, we again scale up the swarm size (120+ robots) and the habitat size (Lagoon of Venice).