Many hands make light work:: A case study in swarm robotics

Jon Timmis

Many hands make light work: A case study in swarm robotics

Jon Timmis^*

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Abstract

There is increasing research in the area of swarm robotics, that is using many robots working together to solve problems, inspired (typically) by social insects. In this tutorial we will explore the area of swarm robotics, but also the wider area of collective robotics and how to develop collaborative distributed systems. We will also examine the use of evolutionary algorithms in swarm robotics to evolve both the controller and morphology of the robot at the same time, creating embodied artificial intelligence. We will end the tutorial on challenges for the area. This tutorial assumes no knowledge of swarm robotics.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer
Volume	9726
ISBN (Print)	9783319413112
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	15th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2016 - Manchester, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Jul 2016 → 15 Jul 2016

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9726
ISSN (Print)	03029743
ISSN (Electronic)	16113349

Conference

Conference	15th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation, UCNC 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Manchester
Period	11/07/16 → 15/07/16

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Timmis, J. (2016). Many hands make light work: A case study in swarm robotics. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 9726). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9726). Springer.

Timmis, Jon. / Many hands make light work: A case study in swarm robotics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 9726 Springer, 2016. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Many hands make light work: A case study in swarm robotics. / Timmis, Jon.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). Vol. 9726 Springer, 2016. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9726).

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