Behaviour Bootstrapping for Ad Hoc, Heterogeneous Robot Swarms

该项目旨在开发算法，使机器人群体能够进化出协调、集体、群体的行为。机器人群体将被定义为发育中的群体生物，最初的行为有限，但配备了结构和过程，使它们能够进化出新的行为。该项目预计将提供下一代计算智能技术，使人类能够利用大量机器人来完成智能城市、智能农业和国防中的新型运输和检查任务。该项目的预期成果包括分布式发展学习的新软件框架，将发展机器人扩展到进化机器人群。

This project aims to develop algorithms to permit groups of robots to evolve coordinated, collective, swarm behaviours. Groups of robots will be conceptualised as developmental swarm organisms with an initially limited set of behaviours, but equipped with structures and processes to permit them to evolve new behaviours. This project expects to deliver the next generation of computational intelligence technologies to enable humans to harness large groups of robots for new kinds of transport and inspection tasks in smart cities, smart farming and defence. The expected outcomes of the project include new software frameworks for distributed developmental learning, extending developmental robotics to evolutionary robot swarms.