Swarm Robotics

Second SAB 2006 International Workshop, Rome, Italy, September 30-October 1, 2006 Revised Selected Papers

Erol Sahin, William M. Spears, Alan F.T. Winfield (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 228 Seiten

2007 | 2007
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-71540-5 (ISBN)

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Swarm robotics is the study of how large numbers of relatively simple physically embodied agentscanbe designedsuchthat a desiredcollectivebehavioremerges from the local interactions among agents and between the agents and the en- ronment. Swarm robotics has emerged as a novel approach to the coordination of large numbers of robots and is inspired from observation of social insects - ants, termites, wasps and bees - which stand as fascinating examples of how a large number of simple individuals can interact to create collectively intelligent systems. Socialinsects areknownto coordinatetheir actionsto accomplishtasks that are far beyond the capabilities of a single individual: termites build large and complex mounds, army ants organize impressive foraging raids, ants can collectively carry large prey. Such coordination capabilities are still well beyond the reach of current multi-robot systems. Researchon swarmroboticshasseen a signi?cantincreasein the last 5 years. A number of successful swarm robotic systems have now been demonstrated in the laboratory and the study of the design, modelling, implementation and analysis of swarm robotic systems has become a hot topic of research. This workshop was organized within SAB 2006, as a sequel to the successful ?rst swarmroboticsworkshopin2004,withtheaimofreviewingandupdatingrecent advances on the topic. We received 21 full papers (20 research + 1 review) and accepted 14 (13 research + 1 review). Overall, we, as organizers, were pleased with the number of submissions, and a number of our reviewers explicitly commented on the generally high quality of the papers.

A Navigation Algorithm for Swarm Robotics Inspired by Slime Mold Aggregation.- Strategies for Energy Optimisation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots.- A Macroscopic Model for Self-organized Aggregation in Swarm Robotic Systems.- An Analytical and Spatial Model of Foraging in a Swarm of Robots.- Algorithms for the Analysis and Synthesis of a Bio-inspired Swarm Robotic System.- Coordination and Control of Multi-agent Dynamic Systems: Models and Approaches.- Communication in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for Swarm Robotics.- UltraSwarm: A Further Step Towards a Flock of Miniature Helicopters.- Where Are You?.- Collective Perception in a Robot Swarm.- Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Based Swarms Using Heuristic Strategies.- Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks.- Collective Specialization for Evolutionary Design of a Multi-robot System.- Scalability in Evolved Neurocontrollers That Guide a Swarm of Robots in a Navigation Task.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.4.2007
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Reihe/Serie	Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
Zusatzinfo	XII, 228 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	345 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Algorithmen
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
Schlagworte	algorithm • Algorithm analysis and problem complexity • algorithms • collective perception • decentralized control • Distributed Systems • mobile computing • Modeling • Multi-agent Systems • multi-robot systems • Navigation • Neural networks • Optimization • robot • Robotics • Self-Organization • swarmbots • swarm communication • swarm engineering • Swarm intelligence • swarm navi • swarm navigation • swarm robotics
ISBN-10	3-540-71540-1 / 3540715401
ISBN-13	978-3-540-71540-5 / 9783540715405
Zustand	Neuware