Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms

Levi, Paul; Kernbach, Serge

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-11692-6

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“…The Symbrion and Replicator projects tackled both the morphogenesis and the control aspects of self-assembly (Levi and Kernbach 2010). In these projects, swarms of selfassembling robots capable of creating 3D structures are studied.…”

Section: Self-assembly and Morphogenesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

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Swarm robotics is an approach to collective robotics that takes inspiration from the self-organized behaviors of social animals. Through simple rules and local interactions, swarm robotics aims at designing robust, scalable, and flexible collective behaviors for the coordination of large numbers of robots. In this paper, we analyze the literature from the point of view of swarm engineering: we focus mainly on ideas and concepts that contribute to the advancement of swarm robotics as an engineering field and that could be relevant to tackle real-world applications. Swarm engineering is an emerging discipline that aims at defining systematic and well founded procedures for modeling, designing, realizing, verifying, validating, operating, and maintaining a swarm robotics system. We propose two taxonomies: in the first taxonomy, we classify works that deal with design and analysis methods; in the second taxonomy, we classify works according to the collective behavior studied. We conclude with a discussion of the current limits of swarm robotics as an engineering discipline and with suggestions for future research directions.

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Section: Self-assembly and Morphogenesismentioning

confidence: 99%

Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

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“…In general we can expect to witness a revival of the old topic of allometry (West and Brown, 2004), derived from the development of quantitative biology research. Robotics is often bioinspired (Bao et al, 2018), but we might see new ideas coming from the opposite camp, nonhomothetic growth in symbiotic robotic systems (Levi and Kernbach, 2010).…”

Section: New Concepts In Symbiosis and Evolutionmentioning

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Conceptual sequel to biological expeditions at the time of global changes

Danchin

2018

Environ Microbiol Rep

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“…Several studies related to the collective or adaptive aspects of complex systems have been driven in areas such as Swarm Intelligence (C. Pinciroli et al, 2011;Levi and Kernbach, 2010), Autonomic computing (Bruni et al, 2012;Lewis et al, 2012), and Multiagent based systems (Cabri et al, 2011;Lavinal et al, 2006). These converge in the need for defining interaction rules between participants towards adapting the system under ordinary and extraordinary events.…”

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Utility-based Decision Making in Collective Adaptive Systems

Andrikopoulos

Bitsaki

Sáez

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science

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Large-scale systems comprising of multiple heterogeneous entities are directly influenced by the interactions of their participating entities. Such entities, both physical and virtual, attempt to satisfy their objectives by dynamically collaborating with each other, and thus forming collective adaptive systems. These systems are subject to the dynamicity of the entities' objectives, and to changes to the environment. In this work we focus on the latter, i.e. on providing the means for entities in such systems to model, monitor and evaluate their perceived utility by participating in the system. This allows for them to make informed decisions about their interactions with other entities in the system. For this purpose we propose a utility-based approach for decision making, as well as an architecture that allows for the support of this approach. 1 ALLOW Ensembles: http://www. allow-ensembles.eu utility as a function over its preferences, context, state and interactions with other entities.

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Symbiotic Multi-Robot Organisms

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Cited by 52 publications

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Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

Swarm robotics: a review from the swarm engineering perspective

Conceptual sequel to biological expeditions at the time of global changes

Utility-based Decision Making in Collective Adaptive Systems

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