Swarm Robotics

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	Swarm robotics is the study of how large number of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be designed such that a desired collective behavior emerges from the local interactions among agents and between the agents and the environment. It is a novel approach to the coordination of large numbers of robots. It is inspired from the observation of social insects ---ants, termites, wasps and bees--- which stand as fascinating examples of how a large number of simple individuals can interact to create collectively intelligent systems. Social insects are known to coordinate their actions to accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single individual: termites build large and complex mounds, army ants organize impressive foraging raids, ants can collectively carry large preys. Such coordination capabilities are still beyond the reach of current multi-robot systems. This site aims to compile swarm-robotics related announcements, resources and links. Please send such information to Erol Sahin to be put online.
	Announcements NEW! Swarm Intelligence: Special Isue on Swarm Robotics: Submission deadline: December 1, 2007. Outdated Call for papers and announcements Elektrik: Special Issue on Swarm Robotics ANTS 2006: Special Issue of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems - An International Journal: Special Issue on Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel, Asynchronous and Decentralised Environments. DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - Collective Intelligence and its Applications, IEEE workshop on distributed intelligent systems as collective robotics, agent-based manufacturing and agent-based coalition formation and their applications. IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium:
	Resources SAB'06 Swarm Robotics Workshop: The workshop web page also contains the presentations made at the workshop. WebBibTex database for swarm robotics literature. In this database, swarm robotics related literature is being compiled. You can browse through the literature, or by creating a user for yourself insert new entries to the database. If you already have a Bibtex file, we can also upload it directly to the database. SAB'04 Swarm Robotics Workshop. The workshop web page also contains the presentations made at the workshop. Autonomous Robots: Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, published on September 2004. The CfP and the table of contents of this issue are available.
	Links Swarmrobot.org: An open source micro-robotic project. The Swarm-bots project. Pheromone Robotics The I-Swarm Project CORO at Caltech
	About this site: This site is being maintained by Erol Sahin.

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