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Complexity Forum - Alan Winfield
Title: Swarm Robot Foraging - a case study in Engineering Complexity
Abstract:
Foraging is a benchmark problem in robotics – especially for swarm robotic systems. This talk argues that the systematic study of robot foraging is important for several reasons: firstly, because foraging is a metaphor for the broad class of problems integrating robotic exploration, navigation and object identification, manipulation and transport; secondly, in swarm systems foraging is a canonical problem for the study of robot-robot cooperation; and thirdly, many and diverse actual or potential real-world applications for robotics are instances of foraging robots, for example, for cleaning, harvesting, search and rescue, landmine clearance or planetary astrobiology. This talk sets out a theoretical framework, structured upon an abstract model and taxonomy of robot foraging, then develops a mathematical model of swarm robot foraging with division of labour.