Designing robot swarms
In software engineering, a design pattern associates a particular class of known problem with a particular class of effective solution. Analogously, swarm robot engineers would benefit from design patterns that each associate specific robot control schemes with desired collective performance. In this project, we characterise such design patterns for robot swarms in the context of collective foraging and task allocation.
Impressions from ALIFE 14 New York
This summer, I attended the Artificial Life conference in New York. There were some interesting and not-so-interesting talks, but generally I am very glad I went. I had a chance to meet some great people and more importantly, to get much needed feedback on my own research. I also got offered to try out real robots in my research.
Stardust Colonies Resurrected
I've been up to a lot lately, getting back to my Stardust Colonies game project. Some might remember that I released a demo about one and half years ago. I managed to get a lot of useful feedback for the game and I am now ready to take the development to the next level.
Impressions from ECAL 2013
I recently returned from Taormina, Sicily where I attended the ECAL 2013 conference. It was so amazing that I felt I had to share my experience from it on this blog.
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.
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.
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