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Swarm Robotics

Swarm Robotics

Amanda J.C. Sharkey
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 6
ISBN13: 9781599048499|ISBN10: 1599048493|EISBN13: 9781599048505
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch225
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Sharkey, Amanda J.C. "Swarm Robotics." Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Juan Ramón Rabuñal Dopico, et al., IGI Global, 2009, pp. 1537-1542. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch225

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Sharkey, A. J. (2009). Swarm Robotics. In J. Rabuñal Dopico, J. Dorado, & A. Pazos (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (pp. 1537-1542). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch225

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Sharkey, Amanda J.C. "Swarm Robotics." In Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, edited by Juan Ramón Rabuñal Dopico, Julian Dorado, and Alejandro Pazos, 1537-1542. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-849-9.ch225

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Abstract

Swarm Robotics is a biologically inspired approach to the organisation and control of groups of robots. Its biological inspiration is mainly drawn from social insects, but also from herding and flocking phenomena in mammals and fish. The promise of emulating some of the efficient organisational principles of biological swarms is an alluring one. In biological systems such as colonies of ants, sophisticated cooperative behaviour emerges despite the simplicity of the individual members, and the absence of centralised control and explicit directions. Such societies are able to maintain themselves as a collective, and to accomplish coordinated actions such as those required to construct and maintain nests, to find food, and to raise their young. The central idea behind swarm robotics is to find similar ways of coordinating and controlling collections of robots.

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