Month: September 2022

PARTIAL AND UNSUPERVISED. "We know that the individual insects do not require representation, schema, or explicit knowledge of global structure they produce. A single insect is not able to evaluate the global situation to centralize the information about the state of the entire colony and later to control the tasks that need to be made by other workers. There is no supervisor in these colonies." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

PROBABILISTIC BEHAVIOR. "A colony of social insects is quite similar to a decentralized system composed of autonomous units that are distributed in the environment, and could be described by simple probabilistic cause-effect behaviors." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE UNITS. "The principles that underlie the interactions between insects are carried out through local information of a global model. Each insect follows a set of few rules. For example, the ants can perform, on average, approximately 20 different elementary behaviors." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

FOUR INSECT TASKS. "Another way to characterize social insects collective behavior consists in defining specific functions to describe insects’ tasks. It is possible to identify four main categories of functions: coordination, cooperation, evaluation and collaboration." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

IMPACT OF FOUR TASKS. "Coordination, cooperation, evaluation and collaboration. Together, the four functions of organization produce solutions to the problems of the colony and could give the impression that the colony act as a whole, planning the work to achieve the colony’s goals." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

BOT INSECT MIMICS. "Swarm robotics is the study of robotic systems consisting of a large group of relatively small and simple robots that interact and cooperate with each other in order to jointly solve tasks that are outside their own individual capabilities." https://lnkd.in/dcd3APB View in LinkedIn

"SWARM ROBOTIC SYSTEMS typically exhibit interesting properties such as high degrees of parallelism, redundancy, and robustness." https://lnkd.in/dcd3APB View in LinkedIn

SWARM BOTS "are also highly adaptive to changes in the environment, and show good scalability to increased problem and/or swarm size." https://lnkd.in/dcd3APB View in LinkedIn

LIMITED AND UNRELIABLE UNITS. "Self-assembly enables nature to build complex forms, from multicellular organisms to complex animal structures such as flocks of birds, through the interaction of vast numbers of limited and unreliable individuals." https://lnkd.in/dZDTAKw View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLY. "Creating this ability in engineered systems poses challenges in the design of both algorithms and physical systems that can operate at such scales," when using limited and unreliable units as seen in nature. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6198/795 View in LinkedIn