Creeper
Creeper is a Java MVC framework for those who want to create multi-agent simulations (or games) and need something to build on. Creeper takes care of effective updating and rendering. You only need to specify the world objects and how they should look like.
Controlling Ant-Based Construction
Stigmergy allows insect colonies to collectively build structures that no single individual is fully aware of. Since relatively minimal sensory and reasoning capabilities are required of the agents, such building activity could be utilised by robotic swarms if we could learn how to control the shape of the final structures.
Foraging Strategies in Nature and Their Application to Swarm Robotics
While foraging is a task often experimented with in swarm robotics, it is often the case that foraging strategies inspired by nature are chosen without careful consideration. Foraging strategies including solitary foraging, behavioural matching, stigmergy, signaling to guide others and coordinated and cooperative hunting are identified and their implementation costs in robots, as well as their suitability for different scenarios is discussed.
The Centralised Mindset and Complexity Science
Humans tend to explain decentralised phenomena as being caused by a single entity. This way of thinking is often referred to as 'the centralised
mindset'. Several authors propose that using programming environments where creation of decentralised agent-based systems is easy...
pyCreeper
The main purpose of pyCreeper is to wrap tens of lines of python code, required to produce graphs that look good for a publication, into functions. It takes away your need to understand various quirks of matplotlib and gives you back ready-to-use and well-documented code.
Novelty detection with robots using the Grow-When-Required Neural Network
The Grow-When-Required Neural Network implementation in simulated robot experiments using the ARGoS robot simulator.
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