Title
Communication Model-Task Pairing in Artificial Swarm Design.
Abstract
Unraveling the nature of the communication model that governs which two individuals in a swarm interact with each other is an important line of inquiry in the collective behavior sciences. A number of models have been proposed in the biological swarm literature, with the leading models being the metric, topological, and visual models. The hypothesis evaluated in this manuscript is whether the choice of a communication model impacts the performance of a tasked artificial swarm. The biological models are used to design coordination algorithms for a simulated swarm, which are evaluated over a range of six swarm robotics tasks. Each task has an associated set of performance metrics that are used to evaluate how the communication models fare against each other. The general findings demonstrate that the communication model significantly affects the swarmu0027s performance for individual tasks, and this result implies that the communication model-task pairing is an important consideration when designing artificial swarms. Further analysis of each tasksu0027 performance metrics reveal instances in which pairwise considerations of model and one of the various experimental factors becomes relevant. The reported research demonstrates that the artificial swarmu0027s task performance can be increased through the careful selection of a communications model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/lra.2018.2849562
international conference on robotics and automation
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
abs/1801.07327
4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
18
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Musad Haque120.88
Connor McGowan200.34
Yifan Guo322.72
Douglas Kirkpatrick400.34
Julie A. Adams539253.75