TY - GEN
T1 - Decentralized control and interactive design methods for large-scale heterogeneous self-organizing swarms
AU - Sayama, Hiroki
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We present new methods of decentralized control and interactive design for artificial swarms of a large number of agents that can spontaneously organize and maintain non-trivial heterogeneous formations. Our model assumes no elaborate sensing, computation, or communication capabilities for each agent; the self-organization is achieved solely by simple kinetic interactions among agents. Specifications of the final formations are indirectly and implicitly woven into a list of different kinetic parameter settings and their proportions, which would be hard to obtain with a conventional top-down design method but may be designed heuristically through interactive design processes.
AB - We present new methods of decentralized control and interactive design for artificial swarms of a large number of agents that can spontaneously organize and maintain non-trivial heterogeneous formations. Our model assumes no elaborate sensing, computation, or communication capabilities for each agent; the self-organization is achieved solely by simple kinetic interactions among agents. Specifications of the final formations are indirectly and implicitly woven into a list of different kinetic parameter settings and their proportions, which would be hard to obtain with a conventional top-down design method but may be designed heuristically through interactive design processes.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_68
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-74913-4_68
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38049069290
SN - 9783540749127
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 675
EP - 684
BT - Advances in Artificial Life - 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th European Conference on Advance in Artificial Life, ECAL 2007
Y2 - 10 September 2007 through 14 September 2007
ER -