Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. : 9781860583186 : 1860583180 : 16 Feb 2001 : An important title in the 'Engineering Research Series', Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots presents research on one of the most exciting areas of technology associated with robotics &; co-ordinated teams, or groups, of tiny robots. These act colonially and behave as a body, or collect data individually, to feed information to a single data retrieval point, offering a network of information. Intercommunication between many tiny robots allows for problem areas to be detected and concentrated upon, bringing the pack of robots together. The developments and research reported here show the ways in which engineers are trying to mimic biological systems and behaviour to find solutions to engineering problems. Dr Melhuish&;s research aims to analyse various naturally occurring collective systems as models for robotic system development. He applied the res