Integrated optical microsystem for communication and sensing in microrobots operating in multi-agent systems or swarms and mass-fabrication method therefor

摘要

An integrated optical microsystem for communication and sensing to be applied into autonomous mobile microrobots belonging to multi-agent systems or swarms, comprising of a substrate (7) suitable to be mounted on the microrobot, a plurality of sensing units (8, 9) electrically controlled and arranged along the borders of the substrate and reflective surfaces (11) arranged on the substrate in correspondence of each sensing unit and aimed to deflect towards these units the input signals and to deflect out the signal emitted by these units. A method to mass produce the optical microsystem is described.