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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Swarm robotics"”.
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The Ant and the Trap: Evolution of Ant-Inspired Obstacle Avoidance in a Multi-Agent Robotic System
Interest in swarm robotics, particularly those modeled on biological systems, has been increasing with each passing year. We created the iAnt robot as a platform to test how well an ant-inspired robotic swarm could collect resources in an unmapped environment. Although swarm robotics is still a …
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The impact of behavioural diversity in the evolution of multi-agent systems robust to dynamic environments
… well as artificial systems such as large-scale swarm robotics applications. Evolutionary swarm robotics is a popular experimental platform for demonstrating the emergence of various social phenomena and collective behaviour, including behavioural diversity and specialisation. However, from an …
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Distributed autonomy and formation control of a drifting swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles
… domain. At the same time, research progress in swarm robotics has seen swarm intelligence algorithms in use with greater effect on real-world robots in the field. A group of AUVs utilizing swarm intelligence concepts has the potential to address issues more effectively than a single AUV, and …
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Distributed autonomy and formation control of a drifting swarm of autonomous underwater vehicles
… domain. At the same time, research progress in swarm robotics has seen swarm intelligence algorithms in use with greater eect on real-world robots in the field. A group of AUVs utilizing swarm intelligence concepts has the potential to address issues more effectively than a single AUV, and such …
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Evolving Efficient Foraging Behavior in Biologically-Inspired Robot Swarms
… unknown and variable environments. We present a swarm robotics system that mimics the foraging behaviors of seed-harvester ants, employing evolutionary computation and machine learning to mitigate the adverse effects of unreliable information, variable environments, congestion bottlenecks, and …
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Scalable and Modular Manufacturing of Insect-Scale Aerial Robots Towards Swarm Flight Demonstrations
… and control have prevented the realization of swarm-like behaviors, thereby constraining research on collective actions and potential applications such as distributed sensing. To overcome these obstacles, this work introduces a scalable and modular fabrication method for sub-gram MAVs. A …
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Stochastic recruitment strategies for controlling artificial muscles
… and similar control problems in the field of swarm robotics.
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Hydrodynamics of magnet-coil actuated robotic fish
… Aquabot, and a low cost robotic fish for swarm robotics experiments, Scuba Fish. Both of these robotic fish use a magnet-coil actuation method in order to create caudal fin motion. A velocity imaging technique,, Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), was used in order to characterize the wake …
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Musical swarm robot simulation strategies
Swarm robotics for music is a relatively new way to explore algorithmic composition as well as new modes of human robot interaction. This work outlines a strategy for making music with a robotic swarm constrained by acoustic sound, rhythmic music using sequencers, motion causing changes in the …
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Design and analysis of mobile sensing systems : an environmental data collection swarm
… portable computing have lead to an explosion in swarming as a viable method to approach large-scale data problems in the commercial, scientific, and defense sectors. This increased attention to large-scale swarm robotics has lead to an increase in swarm intelligence concepts, giving more …
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The Environment Constrains Successful Search Strategies in Natural Distributed Systems
… are relevant to certain algorithmic issues in swarm robotics. For example, it is expensive to implement chemical trails in a distributed physical system, and the dissertation shows that strategies using only local recruitment perform similarly in all environments. Also, origin-only algorithms …
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Distributed learning automata based data dissemination in swarm robotic systems
Swarm robotics systems often work in collaboration with humans to accomplish tasks in a random environment. Swarms allow many tasks to be accomplished within a mission more quickly while generally being more cost effective. The robots in the swarm can also accomplish tasks that humans are not able …
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Local distributed algorithms for multi-robot systems
The field of swarm robotics focuses on controlling large populations of simple robots to accomplish tasks more effectively than what is possible using a single robot. This thesis develops distributed algorithms tailored for multi-robot systems with large populations. Specifically we focus on local …
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Learning to collaborate : robots building together
… ranging from planning with uncertainty to swarm robotics. However, existing approaches to robotic assembly are either too rigid, with a deterministic planning approach, or do not take advantage of the opportunities available with multiple robots. If we are to push the boundaries of robotic …
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Development and evaluation of vision processing algorithms in multi-robotic systems.
The trend in swarm robotics research is shifting to the design of more complicated systems in which the robots have abilities to form a robotic organism. In such systems, a single robot has very limited memory and processing resources, but the complete system is rich in these resources. As vision …
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Computational aspects of cellular intelligence and their role in artificial intelligence.
… interactions. Applications of Cytobots within swarm robotics are investigated by applying them to benchmark search problems and to the task of cleaning up a simulated oil spill. The results are compared to those of established optimization algorithms using similar cell inspired strategies, and …
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Shinerbots: A robotic swarm navigation platform inspired by the golden shiner fish
This thesis describes a swarm robots navigation algorithm inspired by the golden shiner fish. The goal of this algorithm is to have the swarm of robots navigate to their destination with minimal requirements on each robot. There is little sensing complexity required. Each robot only needs to sense …
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Genetic stigmergy: Framework and applications
… indirect communication framework for a simulated swarm of robots tasked with mapping an unknown environment. The robots are able to share their behavioral genes through environmentally distributed Radio-Frequency Identification cards. It was found that robots using a schema encouraging them to …
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Meme transmission in artificial proto-cultures
"I daresay you haven’t had much practice," said the Queen. "When I<br/>was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes<br/>I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."<br/>Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice …
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Hopscotch: Robust Multi-agent Search
The task of searching a space is critical to a wide range of diverse applications such as land mine clearing and planetary exploration. Because applications frequently require searching remote or hazardous locations, and because the task is easily divisible, it is natural to consider the use of …
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