Handbook of Collective Robotics: Fundamentals and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9789814316422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 962 str.

Serge Kernbach

Opis

This book is devoted to mechatronic, chemical, bacteriological, biological, and hybrid systems, utilizing cooperative, networked, swarm, self-organizing, evolutionary and bio-inspired design principles and targeting underwater, ground, air, and space applications. It addresses issues such as open-ended evolution, self-replication, self-development, reliability, scalability, energy foraging, adaptivity, and artificial sociality. The book has been prepared by 52 authors from world-leading research groups in 14 countries. This book covers not only current but also future key technologies and is aimed at anyone who is interested in learning more about collective robotics and how it might affect our society.

Spis treści

Introduction to Collective Robotics: Reliability, Flexibility, and Scalability. The Swarm-Bot Experience: Strength and Mobility Through Physical Cooperation. Architectures and Control of Networked Robotic Systems. Cooperative Robotics In Robocup Soccer Is Not Just Playing a Game. Evolving Collective Control, Cooperation and Distributed Cognition. Reliability and Fault Tolerance in Collective Robot Systems. Collective Reconfigurable Systems: Fundamentals of Self-reconfiguration Planning. Large-Scale Experiments in Aggregation and Self-Assembly. Bio-Mimetic and Bio-Inspired Design of Collective Systems. Improving the Scalability of Collective Systems. Collective Foraging: Cleaning, Energy Harvesting and Trophallaxis. Individual, Social and Evolutionary Adaptation in Collective Systems. Replicators: From Molecules to Organisms. Developmental Collective Robotics: Advantages and Challenges of Unbounded Self-Development. A General Methodology for the Control of Mixed Natural Artificial Societies. Underwater Robot Swarms: Challenges and Opportunities. Aerial Collective Systems. Collective Systems in Space and for Planetary Explorations. Nanorobotics: A Perspective. Minimalistic Large-Scale Micro-Robotic Systems. Chemical Swarm Robots. Performing Collective Tasks with Flagellated Bacteria Acting as Natural and Hybrid Microrobots.

O autorze

Serge Kernbach is the head of the collective robotics group at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He graduated in electronic engineering and computer science in 1994. During 1996–1998, he received several research grants. In 2007 his doctoral thesis won the faculty award as the best dissertation of the year. Since 2004, he has been a coordinator of several European research projects on the field of collective robotics. Kernbach’s main research interest is focused on artificial collective systems. He is the author and coauthor of over 100 articles in international journals and conferences and has edited a few books related to robotics. Since 2000, he has acquired for IPVS more than €3.5M in various research projects.