  Several design parameters in collective robotic systems have been
investigated and developed in order to explore the cooperation among the
autonomous robotic individuals in a variety of robotic swarms in the presence
of different internal and external system constraints. In particular, the
dynamic power management and distribution in a multi-robotic organism is of
very high importance that depends not only on the electronic design but also on
the mechanical structure of the robots. It further defines the true nature of
the collaboration among the modules of a self-reconfigurable multi-robotic
organism. This article describes the essential features and design of a dynamic
power distribution and management system for a dynamically reconfigurable
multi-robotic system. It further presents the empirical results of the proposed
dynamic power management system collected with the real robotic platform. In
the later half of the article, it presents a simulation framework that was
especially developed to explore the collective system behavior and complexities
involved in the operations of a multi-robotic organism. At the end, summary and
conclusion follows the detailed discussion on the obtained simulation results.
