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An approach to sorting swarm robots to optimize performance

An approach to sorting swarm robots to optimize performance
An approach to sorting swarm robots to optimize performance
Swarm robotic systems can offer many advantages including robustness, flexibility and scalability. However one of the issues relating to overall swarm performance that needs to be considered is hardware variations inherent in the implementation of individual swarm robots. This variation can bring behavioral diversity within the swarm, resulting in uncontrollable swarm behaviors, low efficiency, etc. If swarm robots could be separated by behaviors, operational advantages could be obtained. In this paper we report an approach to the sorting of large robotic swarms using an approach inspired by chromatography. Hence the tedious and expensive calibration process can be avoided. The results investigate the influence of the internal control parameters, together with environmental effects on the robotic behavioral sorting. We concluded that if the robot has knowledge of previous events coupled with a specific arena pattern density will offer improved behavioral sorting.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Shang, Beining
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Crowder, Richard
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Zauner, Klaus-Peter
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Shang, Beining
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Crowder, Richard
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Zauner, Klaus-Peter
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Shang, Beining, Crowder, Richard and Zauner, Klaus-Peter (2016) An approach to sorting swarm robots to optimize performance. In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE2016). vol. 5A, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 8 pp . (doi:10.1115/DETC2016-59984).

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Abstract

Swarm robotic systems can offer many advantages including robustness, flexibility and scalability. However one of the issues relating to overall swarm performance that needs to be considered is hardware variations inherent in the implementation of individual swarm robots. This variation can bring behavioral diversity within the swarm, resulting in uncontrollable swarm behaviors, low efficiency, etc. If swarm robots could be separated by behaviors, operational advantages could be obtained. In this paper we report an approach to the sorting of large robotic swarms using an approach inspired by chromatography. Hence the tedious and expensive calibration process can be avoided. The results investigate the influence of the internal control parameters, together with environmental effects on the robotic behavioral sorting. We concluded that if the robot has knowledge of previous events coupled with a specific arena pattern density will offer improved behavioral sorting.

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Accepted/In Press date: 25 May 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 August 2016
Venue - Dates: ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC2016), Charlotte, United States, 2016-01-01 - 2016-08-24
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 397045
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397045
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Date deposited: 20 Jun 2016 10:25
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 18:28

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Author: Beining Shang
Author: Richard Crowder
Author: Klaus-Peter Zauner

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