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Physicomimetics - Physics-Based Swarm Intelligence (Hardcover, 2012)
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Physicomimetics - Physics-Based Swarm Intelligence (Hardcover, 2012)
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Standard approaches to understanding swarms rely on inspiration
from biology and are generally covered by the term "biomimetics".
This book focuses on a different, complementary inspiration, namely
physics. The editors have introduced the term 'physicomimetics' to
refer to physics-based swarm approaches, which offer two
advantages. First, they capture the notion that "nature is lazy',
meaning that physics-based systems always perform the minimal
amount of work necessary, which is an especially important
advantage in swarm robotics. Second, physics is the most predictive
science, and can reduce complex systems to simple concepts and
equations that codify emergent behavior and help us to design and
understand swarms. The editors consolidated over a decade of work
on swarm intelligence and swarm robotics, organizing the book into
19 chapters as follows. Part I introduces the concept of swarms and
offers the reader a physics tutorial; Part II deals with
applications of physicomimetics, in order of increased complexity;
Part III examines the hardware requirements of the presented
algorithms and demonstrates real robot implementations; Part IV
demonstrates how the theory can be used to design swarms from first
principles and provides a novel algorithm that handles changing
environments; finally, Part V shows that physicomimetics can be
used for function optimization, moving the reader from issues of
swarm robotics to swarm intelligence. The text is supported with a
downloadable package containing simulation code and videos of
working robots. This book is suitable for talented high school and
undergraduate students, as well as researchers and graduate
students in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics.
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