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Swarm Robotics

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

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  • © 2007

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  1. Erol Şahin
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  2. William M. Spears
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  3. Alan F. T. Winfield
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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)

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. A Navigation Algorithm for Swarm Robotics Inspired by Slime Mold Aggregation

    • Thomas Schmickl, Karl Crailsheim
    Pages 1-13

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

    • Wenguo Liu, Alan Winfield, Jin Sa, Jie Chen, Lihua Dou
    Pages 14-26

  4. A Macroscopic Model for Self-organized Aggregation in Swarm Robotic Systems

    • Onur Soysal, Erol Şahin
    Pages 27-42

  5. An Analytical and Spatial Model of Foraging in a Swarm of Robots

    • Heiko Hamann, Heinz Wörn
    Pages 43-55

  6. Algorithms for the Analysis and Synthesis of a Bio-inspired Swarm Robotic System

    • Spring Berman, Ádám Halász, Vijay Kumar, Stephen Pratt
    Pages 56-70

  7. Coordination and Control of Multi-agent Dynamic Systems: Models and Approaches

    • Veysel Gazi, Barış Fidan
    Pages 71-102

  8. 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

  9. UltraSwarm: A Further Step Towards a Flock of Miniature Helicopters

    • Renzo De Nardi, Owen Holland
    Pages 116-128

  10. Where Are You?

    • William M. Spears, Jerry C. Hamann, Paul M. Maxim, Thomas Kunkel, Rodney Heil, Dimitri Zarzhitsky et al.
    Pages 129-143

  11. Collective Perception in a Robot Swarm

    • Thomas Schmickl, Christoph Möslinger, Karl Crailsheim
    Pages 144-157

  12. Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Based Swarms Using Heuristic Strategies

    • David Miller, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Timothy Judkins
    Pages 158-172

  13. Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks

    • Christos Ampatzis, Elio Tuci, Vito Trianni, Marco Dorigo
    Pages 173-188

  14. Collective Specialization for Evolutionary Design of a Multi-robot System

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

  15. Scalability in Evolved Neurocontrollers That Guide a Swarm of Robots in a Navigation Task

    • Federico Vicentini, Elio Tuci
    Pages 206-220

  16. Back Matter

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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.

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