Abstract
We do a little example tour through many methods and ideas we are going to study in this book.This is a quick walk through the methodology that is of interest to design swarm robot systems. We model a robot controller with a finite state machine for a collective-decision-making problem. We immediately face the typical challenge of distinguishing between microscopic information that is available to an individual robot and macroscopic information that is only available to an external observer. We continue with a simple macroscopic model of collective-decision making and discuss whether it represents a self-organizing system.
“And what happens to that incredibly complex memory bank that remembers the whole system during these periods of ‘swarming’?”
—Stanisław Lem, The Invincible
“We take off into the cosmos, ready for anything: for solitude, for hardship, for exhaustion, death. […] A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can’t accept it for what it is.”
—Stanisław Lem, Solaris
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Hamann, H. (2018). Short Journey Through Nearly Everything. In: Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74528-2_3
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