Ant-inspired rules for self-assembly in swarm robotics and complex systems

群体机器人和复杂系统中受蚂蚁启发的自组装规则

• 批准号: DE190101513
• 负责人: Dr Christopher Reid
• 金额: $ 27.38万
• 依托单位: Macquarie University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE190101513
• 关键词: Ant; inspired; rules; self; assembly

This project aims to investigate how ants use self-assembly to build bridges and chains, joining their bodies using simple rules at the individual-level to build complex structures at the group-level. The long-standing conceptual gap between these two organisational levels will be addressed using innovative animal behaviour experiments, computer modelling and embodied testing of theory in a robot swarm. The expected outcomes of the project include new models for understanding self-assembly in complex systems and new control algorithms for robot swarms. The project should provide significant benefits such as programming to allow robot swarms to autonomously self-assemble useful structures that enhance their operational capabilities.

该项目旨在研究蚂蚁如何使用自组装来构建桥梁和链条，在个体层面上使用简单的规则连接它们的身体，以在群体层面上构建复杂的结构。这两个组织层面之间长期存在的概念差距将通过创新的动物行为实验、计算机建模和机器人群体中的具体理论测试来解决。该项目的预期成果包括用于理解复杂系统中自组装的新模型和机器人群的新控制算法。该项目应提供重大益处，例如编程，使机器人群能够自主自组装有用的结构，提高其操作能力。