Overview
- Reviews exhaustively the key recent research into distributed information flow for effective swarming behaviors
- Provides an interdisciplinary discussion about swarms involving elements borrowed from the biological and physical sciences, graph theory and engineering control
- Covers many different real-life applications cutting across a vast range of fields
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity (BRIEFSCOMPLEXITY)
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The book is about the key elements required for designing, building and controlling effective artificial swarms comprised of multiple moving physical agents. Therefore this book presents the fundamentals of each of those key elements in the particular frame of dynamic swarming, specifically exposing the profound connections between these elements and establish some general design principles for swarming behaviors. This scientific endeavor requires an inter-disciplinary approach: biomimetic inspiration from ethology and ecology, study of social information flow, analysis of temporal and adaptive signaling network of interaction, considerations of control of networked real-time systems, and lastly, elements of complex adaptive dynamical systems. This book offers a completely new perspective on the scientific understanding of dynamic collective behaviors thanks to its multi-disciplinary approach and its focus on artificial swarm of physical agents. Two of the key problems in understanding the emergence of swarm intelligent behaviors are identifying the social interaction rules a.k.a. the behavioral algorithm and uncovering how information flows between swarming agents. While most books about swarm dynamics have been focusing on the former, this book emphasizes the much-less discussed topic of distributed information flow, always with the aim of establishing general design principles.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics
Authors: Roland Bouffanais
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Complexity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-751-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-287-750-5Published: 27 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-751-2Published: 16 October 2015
Series ISSN: 2191-5326
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5334
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 106
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complexity, Complex Systems, Control and Systems Theory, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems