Welcome to KiloGuide
Presentation
This guide aims to help you to learn how to use kilobots.
It has been created for anyone interested in kilobots and swarm robotics, novice or expert.
About Kilobots
Kilobots are small, minimalist and cheap robots designed by a team from the university of Harvard. They are equiped with all the necessary components to implement swarm behaviors.
Organisation
This guide is divided in two sections.
The guides aim to explain you basic kilobots operations, such as "transferring code to the kilobot", "calibrating the kilobot" or "using Kilo-GUI".
The tutorials focus on the implementation part. With tutorials, you will learn how to code for the kilobot through easy and diverse projects.
If you haven't used kilobots yet, you should probably start by reading the getting-started guide.
Resources and troubleshooting
There are a few important resources available online about kilobots. This guide has been designed has a minimalist introduction to kilobots and swarm robotics. Therefore, if you want to dive deeper in the kilobot universe or have experienced a problem during your learning process, you should check the following websites :
- The kilobotics website
- The kilobot library
- The kilolib source code
- A "getting started" wiki for kilobots
- Kilobot's user manual
- The Harvard's Self-Organizing Research Group Repository
Authors and contact
This guide has been written by Simon Lejoly and is part of a project commanded by the university of Namur.
Note
This guide is not an official guide from the kilobot team or K-Team. To find appropriate support, please visit the links listed above.