Evolutionary Swarm Robotics : Evolving Self-Organising Behaviours in Groups of Autonomous Robots - Trianni, Vito.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
The Evolution of Self-Organization -- Embodied Cognitive Science -- Multi-Robot Systems, Swarm Robotics and Self-Organisation -- Evolutionary Robotics for Self-Organising Behaviours -- Experiments with Simulated and Real Robots -- A Self-Organising Artefact: The Swarm-bot -- Coordinated Motion -- Hole Avoidance -- Self-Organising Synchronisation -- Future Directions -- Emergent Collective Decisions through Self-Organisation -- Decision-Making Mechanisms through the Perception of Time -- From Solitary to Collective Behaviours: Decision Making and Cooperation -- Conclusions.
Keywords: Robotics; Automation; Applied mathematics; Engineering mathematics; Control engineering; Mechatronics; Artificial intelligence; Robotics and Automation; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence; Applications of Mathematics