Imprecise evidence in social learningSwarm Intelligence -
Zixuan Liu, Michael Crosscombe, Jonathan Lawry
AbstractSocial learning is a collective approach to decentralised decision-making and is comprised of two processes; evidence updating and belief fusion. In this paper we propose a social learning model in which agents’ beliefs are represented by a set of possible states, and where the evidence collected can vary in its level of imprecision. We investigate this mod...... hiện toàn bộ
Distributed deformable configuration control for multi-robot systems with low-cost platformsSwarm Intelligence - - 2022
Seoung Kyou Lee
This work presents a deformable configuration controller—a fully distributed algorithm that enables a swarm of robots to avoid an obstacle while maintaining network connectivity. We assume a group of robots flocking in an unknown environment, each of which has only incomplete knowledge of the geometry without a map, a shared coordinate, or the use of a centralized control scheme. Instead, the cont...... hiện toàn bộ
Interactive ant colony optimization (iACO) for early lifecycle software designSwarm Intelligence - Tập 8 - Trang 139-157 - 2014
Christopher L. Simons, Jim Smith, Paul White
Finding good designs in the early stages of the software development lifecycle is a demanding multi-objective problem that is crucial to success. Previously, both interactive and non-interactive techniques based on evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been successfully applied to assist the designer. However, recently ant colony optimization was shown to outperform EAs at optimising quantitative mea...... hiện toàn bộ
Energy-efficient indoor search by swarms of simulated flying robots without global informationSwarm Intelligence - Tập 4 - Trang 117-143 - 2010
Timothy Stirling, Steffen Wischmann, Dario Floreano
Swarms of flying robots are a promising alternative to ground-based robots for search in indoor environments with advantages such as increased speed and the ability to fly above obstacles. However, there are numerous problems that must be surmounted including limitations in available sensory and on-board processing capabilities, and low flight endurance. This paper introduces a novel strategy to c...... hiện toàn bộ
Wildfire detection in large-scale environments using force-based control for swarms of UAVsSwarm Intelligence - Tập 17 - Trang 89-115 - 2022
Georgios Tzoumas, Lenka Pitonakova, Lucio Salinas, Charles Scales, Thomas Richardson, Sabine Hauert
Wildfires affect countries worldwide as global warming increases the probability of their appearance. Monitoring vast areas of forests can be challenging due to the lack of resources and information. Additionally, early detection of wildfires can be beneficial for their mitigation. To this end, we explore in simulation the use of swarms of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) with long autonomy that ca...... hiện toàn bộ
Coherent collective behaviour emerging from decentralised balancing of social feedback and noiseSwarm Intelligence - Tập 13 - Trang 321-345 - 2019
Ilja Rausch, Andreagiovanni Reina, Pieter Simoens, Yara Khaluf
Decentralised systems composed of a large number of locally interacting agents often rely on coherent behaviour to execute coordinated tasks. Agents cooperate to reach a coherent collective behaviour by aligning their individual behaviour to the one of their neighbours. However, system noise, determined by factors such as individual exploration or errors, hampers and reduces collective coherence. ...... hiện toàn bộ
Inertia weight control strategies for particle swarm optimizationSwarm Intelligence - Tập 10 - Trang 267-305 - 2016
Kyle Robert Harrison, Andries P. Engelbrecht, Beatrice M. Ombuki-Berman
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population-based, stochastic optimization technique inspired by the social dynamics of birds. The PSO algorithm is rather sensitive to the control parameters, and thus, there has been a significant amount of research effort devoted to the dynamic adaptation of these parameters. The focus of the adaptive approaches has largely revolved around adapting the iner...... hiện toàn bộ