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Swarm Robotics

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

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4433)

Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)

Conference series link(s): SR: International Workshop on Swarm Robotics

Conference proceedings info: SR 2006.

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Strategies for Energy Optimisation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots

    • Wenguo Liu, Alan Winfield, Jin Sa, Jie Chen, Lihua Dou
    Pages 14-26
  3. Algorithms for the Analysis and Synthesis of a Bio-inspired Swarm Robotic System

    • Spring Berman, Ádám Halász, Vijay Kumar, Stephen Pratt
    Pages 56-70
  4. Communication in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for Swarm Robotics

    • Christopher M. Cianci, Xavier Raemy, Jim Pugh, Alcherio Martinoli
    Pages 103-115
  5. UltraSwarm: A Further Step Towards a Flock of Miniature Helicopters

    • Renzo De Nardi, Owen Holland
    Pages 116-128
  6. Where Are You?

    • William M. Spears, Jerry C. Hamann, Paul M. Maxim, Thomas Kunkel, Rodney Heil, Dimitri Zarzhitsky et al.
    Pages 129-143
  7. Collective Perception in a Robot Swarm

    • Thomas Schmickl, Christoph Möslinger, Karl Crailsheim
    Pages 144-157
  8. Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Based Swarms Using Heuristic Strategies

    • David Miller, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Timothy Judkins
    Pages 158-172
  9. Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks

    • Christos Ampatzis, Elio Tuci, Vito Trianni, Marco Dorigo
    Pages 173-188
  10. Collective Specialization for Evolutionary Design of a Multi-robot System

    • Agoston E. Eiben, Geoff S. Nitschke, Martijn C. Schut
    Pages 189-205
  11. Back Matter

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About this book

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.

Keywords

  • Navigation
  • algorithm
  • algorithms
  • collective perception
  • decentralized control
  • modeling
  • multi-agent systems
  • optimization
  • robot
  • robotics
  • self-organization
  • swarm communication
  • swarm engineering
  • swarm intelligence
  • swarm navi
  • algorithm analysis and problem complexity

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