Swarm Robotics

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 2nd SAB 2006 International Workshop on Swarm Robotics held in Rome, Italy in September/October 2006 as a satellite event of SAB 2006, the 9th Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior. The 14 revised full papers are organized in topical sections on algorithms, modeling and analysis, hardware, and evolutionary approaches.

Inhalt

A Navigation Algorithm for Swarm Robotics Inspired by Slime Mold Aggregation.- Strategies for Energy Optimisation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots.- A Macroscopic Model for Self-organized Aggregation in Swarm Robotic Systems.- An Analytical and Spatial Model of Foraging in a Swarm of Robots.- Algorithms for the Analysis and Synthesis of a Bio-inspired Swarm Robotic System.- Coordination and Control of Multi-agent Dynamic Systems: Models and Approaches.- Communication in a Swarm of Miniature Robots: The e-Puck as an Educational Tool for Swarm Robotics.- UltraSwarm: A Further Step Towards a Flock of Miniature Helicopters.- Where Are You?.- Collective Perception in a Robot Swarm.- Distributed Task Selection in Multi-agent Based Swarms Using Heuristic Strategies.- Evolution of Signalling in a Group of Robots Controlled by Dynamic Neural Networks.- Collective Specialization for Evolutionary Design of a Multi-robot System.- Scalability in Evolved Neurocontrollers That Guide a Swarm of Robots in a Navigation Task.