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Special Issue on Swarm Robotics
Guest Editors: Erol
Sahin and Alan FT Winfield
Editorial
Board (in preparation)
Scope
Swarm robotics is
a new approach to the coordination of multi-robot systems consisting
of large numbers of relatively simple physical robots. The goal of
this approach is to study the design of robots (both their physical
embodiment and their controlling behaviors) such that desired
collective behaviors emerge from the interactions between robots and
the interactions of the robots with the environment. Swarm robotics
is inspired by (but not limited to) the emergent behaviors observed
in social insects. This journal
special issue solicits high-quality scientific contributions on swarm
robotics. While papers on any aspect of swarm robotics are welcome,
of special interest are submissions on:
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Design:
Advances in the development of swarm intelligence algorithms for
robotic systems; principled approaches to engineering emergence;
evolutionary approaches to swarm robot control; swarm robot hardware
and/or software design;
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Modelling
and Analysis: Advances in mathematical models for analysis, and
prediction of the behaviors of swarms; approaches for assuring
dependability or stability of swarm robotic systems;
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Tools:
Advances in both experimental hardware and simulation tools that
aid the development of swarm robotic systems;
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Applications: Actual
or proposed applications of swarm robotics to real-world problems; the
use of swarm robotic systems as working models for advancing the
science or understanding of complex systems.
Submission
All researchers are invited to submit
original work on topics relevant for this special issue. The
submission deadline is December 1,
2007. The publication of
the special issue is tentatively scheduled for autumn 2008
Authors should
submit their manuscripts to the Swarm Intelligence Editorial Manager
at http://www.editorialmanager.com/swrm/.
Please, select “Special Issue on Swarm Robotics” as the article
type. When submitting a paper please also send an email to the guest
editors (erol@metu.edu.tr, alan.winfield@uwe.ac.uk),
with paper title and author list, to alert us of your submission.
A
page with up-to-date information regarding the special issue is
maintained at http://swarm-robotics.org/swrm/
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