Information Technology seminars
Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Local-to-Global Programming
- Date and time:
- 10/12/2008, 14:00
- Location:
- Building: 26, Room: 135, Clayton campus
- Presenters:
- Heiko Hamann, Institute for Process Control and Robotics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Abstract:
- Large groups of small robots, mostly of limited equipment are applied in swarm robotics forming a decentral system. All robots are autonomous and act on the basis of locally available information. The development of the control algorithm, that is to be executed locally on each robot, has proven to be difficult. This development of the local control algorithm is defined and constrained by the global task (global-to-local programming). The classical reductionistic approach is of limited use here (problem of designing emergence). For example, the resulting behavior of the robot swarm often contradicts the intuition of the program developer due to effects of the many robot?robot interactions that cannot be anticipated. The support of the swarm algorithm developer by models is one approach to overcome these problems. A space-time continuous model is introduced and validated in two case studies.
- Speaker biographies:
- Heiko Hamann is a research assistant at the Institute for Process Control and Robotics, University of Karlsruhe, Germany working with Prof. Heinz Wörn and a member of the research training group "Self-Organizing Sensor-Actuator Networks". He just passed his doctoral examination on November 25th. In 2006, he received a masters degree in computer science from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and studied abroad at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA in 2004. His main research interests include modeling self-organizing multi-agent systems, swarm robotics, and bio-inspired robotics.
- Enquiries:
- Jeanette Niehus
- Research group website:
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http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/research/centres/cris/
