Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics
Artificial Life
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The 3rd International Symposium on Experimental Robotics III
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The 4th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics IV
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Division of labor in a group of robots inspired by ants' foraging behavior
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Auction-based multi-robot task allocation in COMSTAR
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Towards multi-level modeling of self-assembling intelligent micro-systems
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Optimized stochastic policies for task allocationin swarms of robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
A macroscopic model for self-organized aggregation in swarm robotic systems
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Swarm robotics
Algorithms for the analysis and synthesis of a bio-inspired swarm robotic system
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Swarm robotics
Coordination and control of multi-agent dynamic systems: models and approaches
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Swarm robotics
Communication in a swarm of miniature robots: the e-Puck as an educational tool for swarm robotics
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Swarm robotics
Distributed task selection in multi-agent based swarms using heuristic strategies
SAB'06 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Swarm robotics
Aggregation-mediated collective perception and action in a group of miniature robots
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 2 - Volume 2
Modeling and Optimization of Adaptive Foraging in Swarm Robotic Systems
International Journal of Robotics Research
Modeling and designing self-organized aggregation in a swarm of miniature robots
International Journal of Robotics Research
Multi-level spatial modeling for stochastic distributed robotic systems
International Journal of Robotics Research
Applications of marine robotic vehicles
Intelligent Service Robotics
A review of probabilistic macroscopic models for swarm robotic systems
SAB'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Swarm Robotics
Mesoscopic modeling of emergent behavior – a self-organizing deliberative minority game
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
Using Stochastic Models to Describe and Predict Social Dynamics of Web Users
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
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In this paper, we present discrete-time, nonspatial, macroscopic models able to capture the dynamics of collective aggregation experiments using groups of embodied agents endowed with reactive controllers. The strength of the proposed models is that they have been built up incrementally, with matching between models and embodied simulations verified at each step as new complexity was added. Precise heuristic criteria based on geometrical considerations and systematic tests with one or two embodied agents prevent the introduction of free parameters into the models. The collective aggregation experiments presented in this paper are concerned with the gathering and clustering of small objects initially scattered in an enclosed arena. Experiments were carried out with teams consisting of one to ten individuals, using groups of both constant and time-varying sizes. In the latter case, the number of active workers was controlled by a simple, fully distributed, threshold-based algorithm whose aim was to allocate an appropriate number of individuals to a time-evolving aggregation demand. To this purpose, agents exclusively used their local perception to estimate the availability of work. Results show that models can deliver both qualitatively and quantitatively correct predictions and they represent a useful tool for generalizing the dynamics of these highly stochastic, asynchronous, nonlinear systems, often outperforming intuitive reasoning. Finally, in addition to discussions of small prediction discrepancies and difficulties in generating quantitatively correct macroscopic models, we conclude the paper by reviewing the intrinsic limitations of the current modeling methodology and by proposing a few suggestions for future work.