Workshop
Swarm robotics is the domain of
robotics that deals with large groups of robots that
coordinately and cooperatively accomplish a task.
Inspired by natural self-organising systems like ant
colonies, fish schools or bird flocks, the goal of swarm
robotics research is to deploy complex robotics systems
that present robustness to faults, flexibility of the
displayed behaviour and adaptivity to environmental
changes.
The problems faced by swarm robotics concerns mainly the
analysis of complex systems formed by a multitude of
interacting units, the design of individual level rules
leading to desired collective behaviours, and the
application of the lessons learned in lab research to
real-world domains.
The workshop will discuss cutting-edge research in all
these directions, and will represent a unique place where
to trace the future of this research field beyond the
state of the art.
