Transcript Modelling swarm behaviour

By Stefan Rummel 05/05/2008
Prof. Rudowsky
CIS 9.5
Brooklyn College
Observing nature to find new
solutions
 Observing behaviour
of social insects
 Living in swarms
 Transfer behaviour
to artificial models
Explaining swarm intelligence using
ants as an example
Explaining swarm intelligence using
ants as an example
 As an individual simple
and helpless
 As a group they form a
collective intelligence
 To solve complex
problems
Definition of swarm intelligence?
“Swarm intelligence (SI) is artificial
intelligence based on the collective
behavior of decentralized, selforganized systems”
Modelling swarm behaviour
Food
Food
 Ants find the
shortest, and
fastest way to a
food source
 Using
pheromones to
communicate
Modelling swarm behaviour for the
„travelling salesman problem“
 Marco Dorigo
 Developed mathematical
algorithm
 With the help of
computer simulation of
artifical ant
Wikipedia as an example of swarm
behaviour
Collaborative Film Making Project „A
swarm of Angels“
 Fund
 Film
 Flow
Towards open source,
collaborative Media
Swarm intelligence and Robotics
 Swarm-bot
project
 Robots
using swarm
behaviour
 Search &
Rescue
Thanks for your attention