Swarm robotics: from sources of inspiration to domains of application
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
A new hybrid algorithm for unconstrained optimisation problems
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
A hybrid particle swarm optimisation with social weight for non-convex economic dispatch problem
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
Research on energy consumption detection system based on OPC technology
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology
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A systematic approach to optimising swarm size is proposed to ensure the robustness when individual swarm units possibly fail while the interference among the units is maintained at an acceptable level. Considering failures of swarm units (e.g. motor and control system) or a swarm system deployed for a hazardous mission, each swarm unit has a certain failure probability. An increased swarm size will guard the system against failure although incurring a cost a greater interference among the swarm units which will hinder the overall swarm performance. This work intends to extend prior work done by various researchers to optimise the swarm size by combining the above-mentioned effects of increasing swarm size. Models for the benefit and cost of increasing swarm size are presented and used to solve this optimisation problem for a robust swarm.