Not only recent Science Fiction – e.g., Star Trek Beyond (USA 2016) – celebrates the capacities of robot collectives. Also RoboCup, an annual robot soccer competition, or Harvard University’s Kilobot Project show stunning examples of the central idea behind Swarm Robotics: »[U]sing swarms is the same as getting a bunch of small cheap dumb things to do the same job as an expensive smart thing« (Beni/Wang 1989). This article examines some crucial aspects of the techno-history of a research field which intertwines engineering and biological knowledge and whose applications deal with compelling questions about synchronization and self-organization in changing environments – on the ground, in the air, and under water.


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    Titel :

    Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things'


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    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.2017


    Anmerkungen:

    Vehlken , S 2017 , ' Swarm Robotics, or: the smartness of 'a bunch of cheap dumb things' ' , SPOOL , vol. 4 , no. 1 , pp. 17-25 . https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2017.1.1911



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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    DDC:    629



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