2018/04/11 by Joshua Cherian Varughese, Hannes Hornischer, Varughese, Joshua Cherian +9
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Slime Mold and Myxomycetes Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1804.04202
openalex publication_date 2018/04/11 · openalex created_date 2018/06/21 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Inspired by natural swarms, numerous control schemes enabling robotic swarms, mobile sensor networks and other multi-agent systems to exhibit various self-organized behaviors have been suggested. In this work, we present a Wave Oriented Swarm Programming Paradigm (WOSPP) enabling the control of swarms with minimalistic communication bandwidth in a simple manner, yet allowing the emergence of diverse complex behaviors and autonomy of the swarm. Communi cation in the proposed paradigm is based on "ping"-signals inspired by strategies for communication and self organization of slime mold (dictyostelium discoideum) and fireflies (lampyridae). Signals propagate as information-waves throughout the swarm. We show that even with 1-bit bandwidth communication between agents suffices for the design of a substantial set of behaviors in the domain of essential behaviors of a collective. Ultimately, the reader will be enabled to develop and design a control scheme for individual swarms.