Maria Gini

Talk Title: Large Robot Swarms: Towards Real Applications

Talk Abstract:
We propose a set of quantitative metrics for robot swarm emergent self-organization, scalability, flexibility to changing external environments, and robustness to internal system stimuli such as sensor and actuator noise and robot failures. We demonstrate the utility of our metrics as a design tool by analyzing different control algorithms and show that our metrics can be used effectively to predict collective behaviors. We provide experimental results obtained in simulation for swarms of thousands of robots.