Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics
Artificial Life
Schaum's Outline of Feedback and Control Systems
Schaum's Outline of Feedback and Control Systems
The Art of Control Engineering
The Art of Control Engineering
Task Modelling in Collective Robotics
Autonomous Robots
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Autonomous Robots
Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles
Autonomous Robots
Building patterned structures with robot swarms
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Construction in a Simulated Environment Using Temporal Goal Sequencing and Reinforcement Learning
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Late Breaking Papers
A swarm robot methodology for collaborative manipulation of non-identical objects
International Journal of Robotics Research
International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research
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Nest construction is an impressive achievement for social insects. They employ templates (or pat terns) in the environment to guide construction tasks and robot swarms can use similar mechanisms. Early work examined how a spatio-temporal varying template can be utilized by a swarm of minimalist robots to build the framework for a linear wall. From this, it became clear that a method for regulating construction in a variable environment was needed. To this end, a social insect inspired distributed feedback mechanism is proposed and verified. Direct and indirect transfer of information between individuals, through the use of signals and cues, is shown to facilitate closure of a feedback loop allowing the system to operate close to optimally. Perturbation experiments demonstrate the robotic swarm's ability to adapt to environmental changes. The work described in this paper provides the basis for a distributed robotic system capable of constructing any given planar structure--a goal implicit in many of the suggested applications for collective construction.