Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Advances in Artificial Life - 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Proceedings |
| Pages | 675-684 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 Dec 1 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 9th European Conference on Advance in Artificial Life, ECAL 2007 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 2007 Sep 10 → 2007 Sep 14 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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| Volume | 4648 LNAI |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Other
| Other | 9th European Conference on Advance in Artificial Life, ECAL 2007 |
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| Country | Portugal |
| City | Lisbon |
| Period | 07/9/10 → 07/9/14 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science(all)
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Sayama, H. (2007). Decentralized control and interactive design methods for large-scale heterogeneous self-organizing swarms. In Advances in Artificial Life - 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Proceedings (pp. 675-684). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4648 LNAI).