5 accepted papers
Swarm perception enables a robot swarm to collectively sense and understand the environment by integrating sensory inputs from individual robots. We explore its application to person re-identification (re-id), the task of recognizing previously observed individuals. Traditional re-id systems rely on…
We investigate the automatic design of robot swarms that perform composite missions—that is, missions specified as the composition of consecutive sub-missions. Automatic design through performance optimization has become a viable and appealing approach to designing robot swarms. First, a user define…
Automatic design is a promising approach to realizing robot swarms. Given a mission to be performed by the swarm, an automatic method produces the required control software for the individual robots. Automatic design has concentrated on missions that a swarm can execute independently, interacting on…
Automatic off-line design is an attractive approach to implementing robot swarms. In this approach, a designer specifies a mission to be accomplished by the swarm, and an optimization process generates suitable control software for the individual robots through computer-based simulations. Most relev
Automatic design is a promising approach to generating control software for robot swarms. So far, automatic design has relied on mission-specific objective functions to specify the desired collective behavior. In this paper, we explore the possibility to specify the desired collective behavior via d…