Seminar Swarm Robotics
Seminar Swarm Robotics
If you are interested to attend the seminar, please come to the first meeting 10.04.2019 9:15 in the swarmLab (G29-035).
In case there are more students than available topics, there will be a selection process. You do not have to write us emails before the first meeting to register.
Both students of the master- and the bachelor seminar are required to participate in all the seminar dates. Make sure that you can attend the seminar 9:15 to 12:15.
You can download the slides for there first meeting here.
Topics
- Topic 1: Tasks of Swarm Robotics (SR)
- 1a Bachelor: Overview
- 1b Master: Foraging in Swarm Robotics
- Sahin, E. (2005). Swarm Robotics: From Sources of Inspiration to Domains of Application.
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Bayindir, L. (2016). A review of swarm robotics tasks. Neurocomputing, 172, 292321.
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Font Llenas, A., Talamali, M. S., Xu, X., Marshall, J. A. R., & Reina, A. (2018). Quality-sensitive foraging by a robot swarm through virtual pheromone trails.
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Khaldi, B., & Cherif, F. (2015). An Overview of Swarm Robotics: Swarm Intelligence Applied to Multi-robotics. International Journal of Computer Applications, 126(2), 3137.
- Topic 2: Localisation in SR
- 2a: Localization Algorithms in SR
- 2b: Pattern Formation in SR
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Coppola, M., Guo, J., Gill, E., & de Croon, G. C. H. E. (2019). Provable self-organizing pattern formation by a swarm of robots with limited knowledge.
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Ma, D., Er, M. J., & Wang, B. (2010). Analysis of hop-count-based source-to-destination distance estimation in wireless sensor networks with applications in localization. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 59(6), 29983011.
- Rubenstein, M., Cornejo, A., & Nagpal, R. (2014). Programmable self-assembly in a thousand-robot swarm. Science, 345(6198), 795-799.
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- Topic 3: Path Planning in Multi-Agent Systems
- 3a: Collision Avoidance
- 3b: Cooperative Path Planning in Multi-Agent Systems
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Cao, C., Trautman, P., & Iba, S. (2019). Dynamic Channel: A Planning Framework for Crowd Navigation.
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Wang, Q., Fang, H., Chen, J., Mao, Y., & Dou, L. (2012). Flocking with obstacle avoidance and connectivity maintenance in multi-agent systems. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (pp. 40094014). https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2012.6426472
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Desaraju, V. R., & How, J. P. (2011). Decentralized path planning for multi-agent teams in complex environments using rapidly-exploring random trees. Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (May), 49564961. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980392
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- Topic 4: Communication in Swarm Robotics
- 4a: Communication in SR
- 4b: Indirect communication and Stigmergy in SR
- Font Llenas, A., Talamali, M. S., Xu, X., Marshall, J. A. R., & Reina, A. (2018). Quality-sensitive foraging by a robot swarm through virtual pheromone trails.
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Hecker, J. P., & Moses, M. E. (2015). Beyond pheromones: evolving error-tolerant, flexible, and scalable ant-inspired robot swarms. Swarm Intelligence, 9(1), 4370.
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Navarro, I., & Matía, F. (2013). An Introduction to Swarm Robotics. ISRN Robotics, 2013, 110.
- Topic 5: Collective search
- 5a Bachelor: Collective Search algorithms
- 5b Master: Signal Source localization
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Hereford, J., & Siebold, M. (2008). Multi-robot search using a physically-embedded Particle Swarm Optimization. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, 4(2).
- Zhang, Y., Ma, X., & Miao, Y. (2011). Localization of multiple odor sources using modified glowworm swarm optimization with collective robots. Proceedings of the 30th Chinese Control Conference.
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Senanayake, M., Senthooran, I., Barca, J. C., Chung, H., Kamruzzaman, J., & Murshed, M. (2016). Search and tracking algorithms for swarms of robots: A survey. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 75, 422434.
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- Topic 6: Collaborative Manipulation
- Not Assigned: Object transportation in SR (in homogeneous swarms)
- Not Assigned: Collaborative object detection and transportation (in heterogenous swarms)
- Rubenstein, M., Cabrera, A., Werfel, J., & Habibi, G. (2013). Collective transport of complex objects by simple robots.
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Mondada, F., Gambardella, L. M., Floreano, D., Nolfi, S., Deneubourg, J. L., & Dorigo, M. (2005). The cooperation of swarm-bots: Physical interactions in collective robotics. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 12(2), 2128.
- Topic 7: Evolutionary Robotics
- 7a Bachelor: Overview Evolutionary Robotics
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Francesca, G., Brambilla, M., Brutschy, A., Trianni, V., & Birattari, M. (2014). AutoMoDe: A novel approach to the automatic design of control software for robot swarms. Swarm Intelligence, 8(2), 89112.
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Mukhlish, F., Page, J., & Bain, M. (2018). Evolutionary-learning framework: improving automatic swarm robotics design. International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 6(4), 197215.
- Floreano, D., Husbands, P., & Nolfi, S. (2008). Evolutionary robotics. Springer handbook of robotics, 1423-1451.
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- 7b Master: Collective Decision Making in SR
- Valentini, G., Ferrante, E., Hamann, H., & Dorigo, M. (2016). Collective decision with 100 Kilobots: speed versus accuracy in binary discrimination problems. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 30(3), 553580.
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Hamann, H. (2013). Towards swarm calculus: Urn models of collective decisions and universal properties of swarm performance. Swarm Intelligence, 7(23), 145172.
- 7a Bachelor: Overview Evolutionary Robotics
Dates
10.04. |
Initial Meeting. You should attend this meeting, if you want to take part in this seminar. Organization, Topics |
12.04. |
Deadline for submission of Motivations |
17.04. |
Fixing topics, Some remarks on scientific writing and how to give a talk |
29.05. |
Presentation Day 1 - Topic 1, 2a |
02.06. |
Deadline for submission of written report |
05.06 |
Presentation Day 2 - Topic 2b, 3 |
12.06. |
Presentation Day 3 - Topic 4, 7a |
16.06. |
Deadline for review submission |
19.06. |
Presentation Day 4 - Topic 5, 7b |
30.06. |
Deadline for submission of the final report |