Thursday morning talk:  David Garzón Ramos (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “Automatic design of robot swarms: context and experiments”

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Thursday morning talk:  David Garzón Ramos (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “Automatic design of robot swarms: context and experiments”

Abstract:

Swarm robotics is a promising approach to the coordination of large groups of robots. Traditionally, the design of collective behaviors for robot swarms has been an iterative manual process: a human designer manually refines the control software of the individual robots until the desired collective behavior emerges.
In this talk, I discuss automatic design as an alternative approach to manual design. In automatic methods, the design process is cast into an optimization problem: given a task to be performed by the swarm, an optimization process designs a collective behavior to perform the task and produces appropriate control software for the robots. I focus on experiments that highlight the various aspects of the automatic design of robot swarms: classes of collective behaviors, control architectures, and the optimization process. In particular, I present a case study on the design of shepherding behaviors for groups of robots. The results presented in this talk are outcomes of the project DEMIURGE; an ERC funded project devoted to the study of the automatic design of robot swarms (PI Mauro Birattari).

This talk will take place in person at SCIoI.

Photo by Omar Flores on Unsplash.

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Event Details

Date: January 19, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am CET
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am