Controlling robot swarms – from theory to practice – and evolution beyond control
Event details
| Date | 30.06.2015 |
| Hour | 11:00 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Roderich Gross, University of Sheffield |
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Robot swarms are often said to exhibit emergent properties. Yet, it is possible to design controllers with predictable outcome. We illustrate this for canonical problems, including multi-robot rendezvous and cooperative transport. The simplicity of the controllers (some do not even require arithmetic computation) facilitates their analysis. We also present a formal method that, given a specification, produces a controller and associated source code. We present experimental results obtained with up to 600 physical robots.
In the second part of the talk, we address the problem of inferring the rules of swarming agents through observation. We propose Turing co-evolution – the first system identification method not to rely on pre-defined metrics – and test it on a physical swarm of robots. We also outline our recent efforts towards an artificial evolution of energy autonomous organisms in physical space.
Bio: Roderich Groß received a Computer Science degree from TU Dortmund University in 2001 and a PhD degree from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2007. From 2005 to 2009 he was a JSPS Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, a Research Associate at University of Bristol, a Marie Curie Fellow at Unilever, and a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL. Since 2010, he has been with the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research interests include distributed robotics and natural computing. He has authored more than 60 publications on these topics, which have been cited 1770 times. His h-index is 21. Dr Groß serves/has served as the General Chair of DARS 2016, Editor of IROS (from 2015), Associate Editor of IROS & ICRA (since 2012), Program Co-Chair of AAMAS 2016 (robotics track), ANTS 2012, and TAROS 2011, Part Editor of the Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, and Associate Editor of Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
In the second part of the talk, we address the problem of inferring the rules of swarming agents through observation. We propose Turing co-evolution – the first system identification method not to rely on pre-defined metrics – and test it on a physical swarm of robots. We also outline our recent efforts towards an artificial evolution of energy autonomous organisms in physical space.
Bio: Roderich Groß received a Computer Science degree from TU Dortmund University in 2001 and a PhD degree from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 2007. From 2005 to 2009 he was a JSPS Fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, a Research Associate at University of Bristol, a Marie Curie Fellow at Unilever, and a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL. Since 2010, he has been with the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer. His research interests include distributed robotics and natural computing. He has authored more than 60 publications on these topics, which have been cited 1770 times. His h-index is 21. Dr Groß serves/has served as the General Chair of DARS 2016, Editor of IROS (from 2015), Associate Editor of IROS & ICRA (since 2012), Program Co-Chair of AAMAS 2016 (robotics track), ANTS 2012, and TAROS 2011, Part Editor of the Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, and Associate Editor of Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
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- General public
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- DISAL
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