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Information Exchange and Coordination in Robot Swarms Lenka Pitonakova

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Information Exchange and Coordination in Robot Swarms Lenka Pitonakova

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Swarm Engineering

¡ Design patterns?

¡  Biologically inspired – good reasons, but how?

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Animal-like behaviour ¡ What can we achieve? ¡  Foraging

¡  Construction

¡  How can we achieve it? ¡  Communication

¡  Recruitment

¡  Labour division

¡  Interaction with us

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Foraging ¡  In nature: ¡  Various resource types

¡  Various evolved strategies

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Foraging ¡  In engineering ¡  Various resource types

¡  No ‘guide’ on strategies

¡ Good strategy = saving ¡  Robot cost

¡  Time spent building / coding

¡  Strategic knowledge = adaptation

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Construction ¡  In nature ¡  Stigmergy

¡  Pheromone concentration

¡ What can we do? ¡  Structure complexity

¡  Providing a blueprint (in language of the swarm)

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Construction ¡  Example: controlling ant

construction

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Platform ¡  Simulation ¡  Realistic physics

¡  Good model of sensors, actuators, battery life, ...

¡ ARGoS?

¡  Robots?

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In summary... ¡ Applicability of biologically

inspired swarm algorithms for robots

¡  How to ¡  Design them

¡  Make them coordinate

¡  Tell them what we want

¡  Supervisors ¡  Prof Seth Bullock

¡  Dr Richard Crowder