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dr. Eliseo Ferrante - Swarm Robotics - An interdisciplinary field between Engineering and Science

19 May 2015   14:00

Swarm robotics studies the design of collective behaviors for swarms of robots. It relies on collaboration and self-organization to solve problems in large unstructured or unpredictable environments. By taking inspiration from biological systems, it aims at designing artificial systems with similar features, in particular in terms of flexibility, robustness and scalability. Despite being active for more than two decades, the field of swarm robotics still heavily relies on trial-and-error methods and lacks general principles and methods that could promote it to a full engineering field. Furthermore, the field often also serves as a support to other sciences, such as biology and physics, whereby it serves to identify the proximate mechanisms underlying
collective behaviors in biological systems and answer questions about their evolution.

In this talk I will first introduce the field of swarm robotics. I will give an overview by classifying work in the field according to the type of collective behavior being studied, and I will also introduce the most common design and analysis methods being used. I will then describe the work I have been doing in the field, to show how work in this field can be highly interdisciplinary, in my case at the interface between engineering, statistical physics and evolutionary biology. The topics will range from self-organized collective motion (described both in robotics and statistical physics), to opinion dynamics, heterogeneous swarm robotics, and the evolution of task specialization.

Place
KN:E-112 (Karlovo nám. 13, budova E, Vyčichlova knihovna)
Organizer
Veronika Šínová
Contact person
Veronika Šínová, sinova@fel.cvut.cz, 224 35 7667