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Scope
Swarm robotics can be
defined as the study of how a swarm of relatively
simple physically embodied agents can be contructed to
collectively accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a
single one. Different from other studies on multi-robot systems, swarm
robotics emphasizes self-organization and emergence while keeping
in mind the issues of scalability and robustness. These emphases
promote the use of relatively simple robots, equipped with localized
sensing abilities, scalable communication mechanisms and the
exploration of decentralized control strategies.
With the recent technological advances, study of robotic swarms is
becoming more and more feasible. There are already a number of on-going projects that aim to
develop and/or control large numbers
of physically embodied agents. The workshop brought together
researchers in an
effort to review the on-going studies,
discuss and identify the research directions in swarm robotics.
Swarm Robotics Requirements
One of the main motivations behind this workshop has been the need for
a clarification of this newly emerging field. Although we would like to
have a discussion on what the term "swarm robotics" should mean in
relation to other terms such as "multi-robot systems",
"distributed robotic systems", "collective robotics", etc., here we put
forward a set of minimal requirements for the field:
- The robotic system should consist of large numbers of
robots (or the studies should be applicable to the control of large
robotic swarms)
- The system should consist of relatively few homogeneous
groups of robots, and that the number of robots in each group be large.
- The robots should be relatively simple and incapable such
that the tasks tackled require the co-operation of the individual
robots.
- The robots should only have localized and limited sensing
and communication abilities.
Presentations
Below you can access the presentations made at the workshop in
different formats for your convenience (.ppt: MS Powerpoint format,
.pdf: Adobe Acrobat format, .sxi: OpenOffice format). The original
format submitted by the authors is indicated with bold. Also, some of
the movies shown during the
presentations are available.
Title
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Speaker
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Presentation
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Movies
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| From
Swarm Intelligence
to Swarm Robotics |
by
Gerardo
Beni,
University of California at Riverside, CA, USA. |
.ppt | .pdf | .sxi
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| Swarm
Robotics: From
sources of inspiration to domains of application |
by Erol Sahin, KOVAN, Dept. of Computer
Eng., METU, Turkey. |
.ppt
| .pdf | .sxi |
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| Communication,
Learning
and Diversity: Cornerstones of Swarm Behavior |
by Tucker Balch,
Georgia Tech., GA, USA. |
.pdf
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| The
Swarm-bots Project |
by Vito Trianni, IRIDIA,
Universite Libre de
Bruxelles, Belgium. |
.ppt
| .pdf | .sxi |
movies
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| Pheromone
Robotics and
the Logic of Virtual Pheromones |
by
David Payton, HRL Labs, CA, USA. |
.ppt
| .pdf | .sxi |
movies
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| Distributed
localization
and mapping with a robotic swarm |
by Ihsan Ecemis, Icosystem
Corp., MA, USA. |
.ppt | .pdf | .sxi |
movies
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| The
I-Swarm project:
Intelligent Small
World Autonomous Robots for Micro-manipulation |
by Joerg Seyfried, IPR, Universitaet Karlsruhe(TH),
Germany. |
.ppt
| .pdf | .sxi |
movies
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| Artificial
Physics
Framework |
by William
Spears, University of Wyoming, WY, USA. |
.ppt
| .pdf | .sxi |
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| Lattice
Formation in
Mobile Autonomous Sensor Arrays |
by
David Payton, HRL Labs, CA, USA. |
.ppt | .pdf | .sxi |
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| Swarming
behavior using
Probabilistic Roadmap Techniques |
by O. Burchan
Bayazit, Washington Univ. at St. Louis, WA, USA. |
.ppt | .pdf | .sxi |
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| Toward
dependable swarms |
by Alan Winfield,
University of West England, U.K. |
.ppt | .pdf | .sxi
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movies
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| A Mathematical Approach to Modeling Swarm Robotic Systems
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by Kristina Lerman,
USC Information Sciences Institute, CA, USA. |
.ppt
| .pdf | .sxi |
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| Order
by Disordered
Actions in Swarms |
by
Gerardo
Beni,
University of California at Riverside, CA, USA. |
.ppt | .pdf | .sxi |
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Editorial board
- Tucker Balch,
Georgia Tech., GA, USA
- O. Burchan
Bayazit, Washington Univ. at St. Louis, WA, USA
- Gerardo
Beni, University of California at Riverside, CA, USA
- Marco Dorigo,
IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Paolo Gaudiano, Icosystem
Corp., MA, USA
- Alcherio
Martinoli, EPFL, Switzerland, and Caltech, CA, USA
- David Payton, HRL Labs,
CA, USA
- Cem Unsal, Arris Group, CA, USA
- Alan
Winfield, University of West England, UK
- Joerg Seyfried, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Important dates
Full paper submission:
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May
3, 2004 |
| Notification
of acceptance: |
May
24, 2004 |
Revised paper (to be
distributed at the workshop):
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June 7, 2004
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SAB'04 conference:
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July 13-16, 2004
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| Workshop: |
July
17, 2004 |
Camera-ready manuscript
(see
below):
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August 15, 2004
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Proceedings and manuscript preparation
- The post-proceedings of the workshop is published by
Springer in the Lecture
Notes in
Computer Science State-of-the-Art Series as : Swarm Robotics SAB 2004
International Workshop, Santa Monica, CA, USA, July 17, 2004, Revised
Selected Papers
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science,
Vol. 3342 Sahin, Erol; Spears, William M. (Eds.) 2005,
IX, 175 p., Softcover, ISBN: 3-540-24296-1.
- The page limit for both types of papers is set to be 15.
Since the
papers will be published as a post-proceeding in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series
the authors are expected to revise their papers according to
reviewers comments and feedback from the workshop itself
Manuscripts must be prepared in
accordance with the rules set in the Authors'
Instructions page and be e-mailed to:
New: You can find the latex templates for both the review and research papers
here.
Sample manuscripts generated by these templates are here.
Please read the README file provided.
Venue
The workshop is held in Los Angeles, CA, USA after the SAB'04
conference. More information is available at the SAB'04 web site.
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