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Swarm Robotics

Swarm robotics is the study of how large number of relatively simple physically embodied agents can be designed such that a desired collective behavior emerges from the local interactions among agents and between the agents and the environment. It is a novel approach to the coordination of large numbers of robots. It is inspired from the observation of social insects ---ants, termites, wasps and bees--- which stand as fascinating examples of how a large number of simple individuals can interact to create collectively intelligent systems. Social insects are known to coordinate their actions to accomplish tasks that are beyond the capabilities of a single individual: termites build large and complex mounds, army ants organize impressive foraging raids, ants can collectively carry large preys. Such coordination capabilities are still beyond the reach of current multi-robot systems.

This site aims to compile swarm-robotics related announcements, resources and links. Please send such information to Erol Sahin to be put online.

Announcements

• NEW! Neural Computing & Applications Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, edited by Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Groß, is now available.
• NEW! Theoretical Computer Science Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence Theory: A Snapshot of the State of the Art,

edited by E. Bonabeau, D. Corne, J. Knowles and R. Poli, is now available.

Outdated Calls and Announcements

• ANTS 2010: Seventh Intl. Conf. on Swarm Intelligence: Conf. Date: Sept. 8-10, 2010, Venue: Brussels, Belgium, Submission deadline: Feb. 28, 2010. Call for papers is available here.
• Call for Papers: Swarm Cognition Workshop organized as part of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2009) by Vito Trianni and Elio Tuci : Submission deadline: June 1, 2009.
• Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence and Swarm Robotics of the Neural Computing & Applications journal by Nikolaus Correll, Zhihua Cui, Xiao-Zhi Gao and Roderich Gross : Submission deadline: May 15, 2009. Call for Papers is available here.
• IJICC: Special Isue on Swarm Robotics by S. Hettiarachchi and William M. Spears
• Swarm Intelligence: Special Isue on Swarm Robotics
• Elektrik: Special Issue on Swarm Robotics
• ANTS 2006:
• Special Issue of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems - An International Journal: Special Issue on Nature-Inspired Systems for Parallel, Asynchronous and Decentralised Environments.
• DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - Collective Intelligence and its Applications, IEEE workshop on distributed intelligent systems as collective robotics, agent-based manufacturing and agent-based coalition formation and their applications.
• IEEE Swarm Intelligence Symposium:

Resources

• NEW! Neural Computing & Applications Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, edited by Nikolaus Correll and Roderich Groß.
• NEW! Theoretical Computer Science Special Issue on Swarm Intelligence Theory: A Snapshot of the State of the Art,

edited by E. Bonabeau, D. Corne, J. Knowles and R. Poli.

• SAB'06 Swarm Robotics Workshop: The workshop web page also contains the presentations made at the workshop.
• WebBibTex database for swarm robotics literature. In this database, swarm robotics related literature is being compiled. You can browse through the literature, or by creating a user for yourself insert new entries to the database. If you already have a Bibtex file, we can also upload it directly to the database.
• SAB'04 Swarm Robotics Workshop. The workshop web page also contains the presentations made at the workshop.
• Autonomous Robots: Special Issue on Swarm Robotics, published on September 2004. The CfP and the table of contents of this issue are available.

Links

• Swarmrobot.org: An open source micro-robotic project.
• The Swarm-bots project.
• Pheromone Robotics
• The I-Swarm Project
• CORO at Caltech