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Call for Papers: Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Swarm
Robotics, Guest Editors: Marco Dorigo and Erol Sahin
Social insect colonies are a fascinating example of how collectively
intelligent systems can be generated by the interaction
of a large number of relatively simple agents.
Based on the social insect metaphor, swarm
intelligence (SI) has emerged as a novel
approach to the design of "intelligent" systems, which
emphasizes distributedness, local interaction between agents,
flexibility, and robustness. The SI approach has already been
successfully applied to many important problems such
as the approximate solution of combinatorial
optimization problems and adaptive
routing in communications networks.
The special issue will be dedicated to the publication
of original research related to swarm robotics, which can be
loosely
defined as the application of SI to the control of
a "swarm" of robots. It
aims to compile studies on the analysis and synthesis of embodied
swarms. Differently from other applications of SI, the physical
embodiment of the agents and their realistic interactions as a
consequence of this embodiment are emphasized. Specifically, the
submitted papers are expected to address one or both of the following
questions: What are the principles behind the emergence of
intelligence in natural swarms? How should individual embodied agents
be designed and controlled so that the swarm as a whole can perform
user-defined tasks?
Table of Contents
Swarm Robotics - Special Issue Editorial
M. Dorigo and E. Sahin
Algorithms
for Building Annular Structures with Minimalist
Robots Inspired by Brood Sorting in Ant Colonies
M. Wilson, C. Melhuish, A.B. Sendova-Franks, S. Scholes
Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles
W.M. Spears, D.F. Spears, J.C. Hamann, and R. Heil
Macroscopic
Modeling of Aggregation Experiments using
Embodied Agents in Teams of Constant and Time-Varying Sizes
W. Agassounon , A. Martinoli, and K. Easton
Swarm-Bot: a New Distributed Robotic Concept
F. Mondada, G. C. Pettinaro, A. Guignard, I. W. Kwee, D. Floreano,
J.-L. Deneubourg, S. Nolfi, L. M. Gambardella, and M. Dorigo
Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot
M. Dorigo, V. Trianni, E. Sahin, R. Groß , Th. H. Labella , G.
Baldassarre, S. Nolfi, J.-L. Deneubourg, F. Mondada, D. Floreano, and
L. M. Gambardella
Up-to-date information about the special issue is available
at: http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/swarm-robotics/
