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SAB'06 (From Animals to Animats)Workshop on Swarm RoboticsRome, ItalySeptember 30 and October 1, 2006 Organized by: Erol Sahin, William M. Spears and Alan F.T. Winfield |
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ScopeSwarm robotics is the study of how large numbers 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 emerged as 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.Research on swarm robotics has been on the rise during the last decade. A number of successful swarm robotic systems have already been developed and the study of coordination in swarm robotic systems has become a hot topic of research. The workshop will be a sequel to the first swarm robotics workshop organized within SAB 2004 with great success and will aim to review the recent advances on the topic. Papers on any aspect of Swarm Robotics would be welcome, but especially
The workshop will accept review and research papers based on blind review. During first workshop, the emphasis was to provide a review of the field, and reviews of major projects and major research tracks were invited, with a relatively fewer number of research papers. This workshop will focus on the recent results from swarm robotics research. |
| Title |
Speaker |
Presentation |
Movies |
| Invited
talk: An experiment in swarm robotics: the swarm-bot |
by
M. Dorigo IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. |
.ppt
| .pdf |
|
| A
navigation algorithm for swarm robotics inspired by slime mold aggregation |
by T. Schmickl and K. Crailsheim Department for Zoology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| Strategies
for energy optimisation in a swarm of foraging robots |
by
W. Liu and A.
Winfield, J. Sa, J. Chen, L. Dou Bristol Robotics Lab, University of West England, U.K. |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| An
empirical study on the motion of self-propelled particles with turn
angle restrictions |
by A. Samiloglu, V. Gazi, B. Koku TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Turkey |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| A
macroscopic model for probabilistic aggregation in swarm robotic systems |
by
O. Soysal and E. Sahin, KOVAN Research Lab., Dept. of Computer Eng., Middle East Technical University, Turkey. |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| An
analytical and spatial model of foraging in a swarm of robots |
by H. Hamann and H. Woern IPR, Universitaet Karlsruhe(TH), Germany. |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| Algorithms
for the Analysis and Synthesis of a Bio-Inspired Swarm Robotic System |
by S. Berman, A. Halasz, V. Kumar, and S. Pratt University of Pennsylvania, USA, | .ppt | .pdf | |
| Review
of Control and Coordination of Multi-agent Dynamic Systems: Models and Approaches |
by V. Gazi and B. Fidan TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Turkey |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| Communication
in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for
Swarm Robotics |
by C. Cianci, X. Raemy, J. Pugh, and A. Martinoli Swarm-Intelligent Systems Group, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland |
.ppt
| .pdf |
|
| UltraSwarm:
A Further Step Towards a Flock of Miniature Helicopters |
by R. De Nardi and O. Holland Department of Computer Science University of Essex, U.K. |
.ppt | .pdf | movies |
| Where
Are You? |
by
W. Spears, J. Hamann, P. Maxim,
T. Kunkel, R. Heil, D. Zarzhitsky, D. Spears, and C. Karlsson University of Wyoming, WY, USA. |
.ppt
| .pdf |
movies |
| Collective
Perception in a Robot Swarm |
by T. Schmickl, C. Moslinger, and K.
Crailsheim Department for Zoology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| Distributed
Task Selection in Multi-agent based Swarms using Heuristic Strategies |
by
D. Miller, P. Dasgupta, and T.
Judkins Computer Science Department, University of Nebraska-Omaha, USA |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| Evolution of Signalling in a Swarm of
Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks |
by C. Ampatzis, E. Tuci, V. Trianni,
and M. Dorigo IRIDIA, CoDE, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. |
.ppt | .pdf | movies |
| Evolutionary
Design of Specialized Aerial Explorer Controllers |
by
A. Eiben, G. Nitschke, and M.
Schut Computational Intelligence Group, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands |
.ppt | .pdf | |
| Scalability
in Evolved Neurocontrollers that Guide a Swarm of Robots in a Navigation Task |
by F. Vicentini and E. Tuci Robotics Lab, Mechanics Dept., Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
.ppt | .pdf |
Program Committee
- Marco Dorigo, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- John Feddema, Sandia National Lab., NM, USA
- Paolo Gaudiano, Icosystem Corp., MA, USA
- Veysel Gazi, TOBB University of
Economics and Technology, Turkey
- Kristina Lerman, Information Sciences Institute, U. of Southern California, CA, USA
- Alcherio Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland, and Caltech, CA, USA
- Francesco Mondada, EPFL, Switzerland
- Lynne E. Parker, University of Tennessee, TN, USA.
- David Payton, HRL Labs, CA, USA
- Joerg Seyfried, IPR, Universitaet Karlsruhe(TH), Germany.
- Kasper Støy, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Guy Theraulaz, Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France
- Cem Unsal, Yahoo! Inc., CA, USA
- Richard Vaughan,
Simon Frasier University, Canada
Important dates (tentative)
| Full
paper submission |
July
1, 2006 |
| Notification
of Acceptance |
August
1, 2006 |
| Revised
paper (to be
distributed at the workshop) |
September
1, 2006 |
| Workshop |
September
30 and October 1, 2006 |
| Camera-ready papers |
November 1, 2006 |
Proceedings and manuscript preparation
- The post-proceedings of the workshop will be
published by
Springer in the Lecture
Notes in
Computer Science as a sequel to the post-proceedings
of the first workshop.
- Prepare your manuscripts in the LNCS format, using
the
detailed instructions for manuscript preparation available here.
Your manuscripts are expected to be upto 15 pages long.
- Use the ConfTool
to register yourself and submit your manuscript.
Registration and post-proceedings
- Registration to the workshop will be handled by SAB'06.
- For each accepted paper, at least one registration is
required.
- For each accepted paper, one copy of the post-proceedings,
as published by Springer, will be mailed to the authors.
Venue
- The workshop is held in Rome, Italy after the SAB'06 conference. More information is available at the SAB'06 web site.
Links
- The web page of the first workshop, which also includes the
presentations made during the workshop, is available at:
http://swarm-robotics.org/SAB04/index.html - Swarm-robotics.org
main page
News
- Up-to-date information about the workshop will be made available at this page:
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