Analysis of Emergent Processes of Adaptive Functions in Swarm Robotic Systems

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25820090
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Intelligent mechanics/Mechanical systems
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: YASUDA Toshiyuki 広島大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 助教 (60435451)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: スワームロボティクス / 計算知能 / 進化ロボティクス / 群れ行動 / 行動解析 / 進化型人工神経回路網

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Swarm robotics (SR) is an application of swarm intelligence observed in insect colonies, fish schools, and bird flocks to multi-robot systems. Main research in SR focus on how to generate swarm behavior, and behavior rules based on the observation of biological swarms are often implemented. In this research, evolutionary robotics approach is adopted aiming for developing a principled design method and tackling more complicated tasks for robotic swarms. The following projects have been conducted: (1) Develop of parallel computing environments on GPU, (2) Ethological analysis of autonomous specialization process of robotic swarms, and (3) Verification in physical robot experiments.

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