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Abstract
Swarm robotics is concerned with the decentralised coordination of multiple robots having only limited communication and interaction abilities. Although fault tolerance and robustness to individual robot failures have often been used to justify the use of swarm robotic systems, recent studies have shown that swarm robotic systems are susceptible to certain types of failure. In this paper we propose an approach to self-healing swarm robotic systems and take inspiration from the process of granuloma formation, a process of containment and repair found in the immune system. We use a case study of a swarm performing team work where previous works have demonstrated that partially failed robots have the most detrimental effect on overall swarm behaviour. We have developed an immune inspired approach that permits the recovery from certain failure modes during operation of the swarm, overcoming issues that effect swarm behaviour associated with partially failed robots.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 60-76 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Biosystems |
Volume | 146 |
Early online date | 10 May 2016 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 10 May 2016 |
Bibliographical note
© 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for detailsKeywords
- Artificial immune systems
- Self-repair
- Swarm robotics
Projects
- 2 Finished
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Cosmos: Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation
1/10/07 → 31/03/12
Project: Research project (funded) › Research