System Design

The difficult task in swarm intelligence is to answer

the question:
How do we program an individual agent so the
entire global system behaves as we want it to?
The techniques to design and control individual
agents are a standard AI problem and techniques
like reinforcement learning, fuzzy logic, neural
networks etc, can be used.
When designing an SI system both the individual
agents ability to search and evaluate its area as
well as a means for communication need to be
considered. Many of the global emergent
behaviour are difficult to predict.The major steps in
SI system design are:
Identification of analogies: in swarm
biology and IT systems
Understanding: computer modelling of
realistic swarm biology
Engineering: model simplification and
tuning for IT applications
Applications& Scope
Swarm Intelligence is utilised in the following
areas:
Swarm robotics:
It is a new approach to the coordination of
multirobot systems which consist of large numbers
of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that
a desired collective behavior emerges from the
interactions between the robots and interactions of
robots with the environment. This approach
emerged on the field of artificial swarm
intelligence, as well as the biological studies of
insects, ants and other fields in nature, where
swarm behaviour occurs.
One project that might deploy such methods in the
near future is ANTS Autonomous Nano
Technology Swarm. The acronym is apt, because
ANTS is all about collective, emergent intelligence
of the sort that appears in insect colonies. What
scientists at NASA s Goddard Space Flight Center
envision is a massive cluster of tiny probes that use
artificial intelligence to explore the asteroid belt.
Each probe, weighing perhaps 1 kilogram (2.2
pounds) would have its role while a small
number of them direct the exploration, perhaps 900
of the probes would proceed to do the work, with
only a few returning to Earth with data.One key
factor here is redundancy; the mission succeeds
even if a large number of individual probes are lost.
ANTS could serve as a testbed for numerous
technologies as it spreads computing intelligence
across intelligent, networked spacecraft. In
particular, computer autonomy would be critical to
ensuring the success of the mission.
Reference: http://www.seminarprojects.com/Thread-swarm-intelligence#ixzz1La8MHmn
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