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Initial Experiments in Using Communication Swarms to Improve the Performance of Swarm Systems

Initial Experiments in Using Communication Swarms to Improve the Performance of Swarm Systems

  • Stephen M. Majercik18 
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Abstract

Swarm intelligence can provide robust, adaptable, scalable solutions to difficult problems. The distributed nature of swarm activity is the basis of these desirable qualities, but it also prevents swarm-based techniques from having direct access to global knowledge that could facilitate the task at hand. Our experiments indicate that a swarm system can use an auxiliary swarm, called a communication swarm, to create and distribute an approximation of useful global knowledge, without sacrificing robustness, adaptability, and scalability. We describe a communication swarm and validate its effectiveness on a simple problem.

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  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  • Swarm Intelligence
  • Global Knowledge
  • Home Location
  • Swarm Size

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  1. Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 04011, USA

    Stephen M. Majercik

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, P.O. Box 5031, 2600 GA, Delft, The Netherlands

    Fernando A. Kuipers

  2. Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, O.S. Bragstads plass 2B, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Poul E. Heegaard

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Majercik, S.M. (2012). Initial Experiments in Using Communication Swarms to Improve the Performance of Swarm Systems. In: Kuipers, F.A., Heegaard, P.E. (eds) Self-Organizing Systems. IWSOS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7166. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28583-7_12

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