Oct. 5th, 2023 / 8:40am - 5:30pm
Workshop Description
Natural swarms consistently demonstrate that a collective composed of simple constituents can exhibit functions that far exceed the capabilities of any single agent. Social amoeba, for example, is composed of thousands of cells that use local oscillatory chemical signaling to collectively reconfigure their morphology and functions as a response to nutrients in the surrounding environment. This species embodies many features that swarm roboticists envision in scalable, self-reconfigurable robot collectives at all length scales: local-to-global behaviors, low-level communication, plasticity, and simple constituents. This vision drives our workshop’s goal: to bring together roboticists working on micron scale and macro-scale systems with a shared interest in swarming systems. We will bring together eminent experts on swarm robotics that demonstrate that regardless of the length scale, they can exploit robot morphology, physical interactions among agents, and low-level coordination mechanisms to enable collective behaviors for diverse applications. Our workshop will feature keynote presentations by experts and rising stars on recent research on swarm robotics ranging from simulation to physical realization studies; directed group discussions between researchers originating from diverse fields related to robot swarm fabrication, actuation, sensing, and coordination; and poster presentation sessions with video demonstrations of robot swarms. We aim to (1) inspire new robot collective systems that borrow methods of interaction between agents from the opposite end of the length scale, (2) introduce researchers to diverse sets of local interaction mechanisms that can enable complex and functional collective behaviors at various length scales, and (3) facilitate discussion between established researchers and rising stars.
Location
Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Natural swarms consistently demonstrate that a collective composed of simple constituents can exhibit functions that far exceed the capabilities of any single agent. Social amoeba, for example, is composed of thousands of cells that use local oscillatory chemical signaling to collectively reconfigure their morphology and functions as a response to nutrients in the surrounding environment. This species embodies many features that swarm roboticists envision in scalable, self-reconfigurable robot collectives at all length scales: local-to-global behaviors, low-level communication, plasticity, and simple constituents. This vision drives our workshop’s goal: to bring together roboticists working on micron scale and macro-scale systems with a shared interest in swarming systems. We will bring together eminent experts on swarm robotics that demonstrate that regardless of the length scale, they can exploit robot morphology, physical interactions among agents, and low-level coordination mechanisms to enable collective behaviors for diverse applications. Our workshop will feature keynote presentations by experts and rising stars on recent research on swarm robotics ranging from simulation to physical realization studies; directed group discussions between researchers originating from diverse fields related to robot swarm fabrication, actuation, sensing, and coordination; and poster presentation sessions with video demonstrations of robot swarms. We aim to (1) inspire new robot collective systems that borrow methods of interaction between agents from the opposite end of the length scale, (2) introduce researchers to diverse sets of local interaction mechanisms that can enable complex and functional collective behaviors at various length scales, and (3) facilitate discussion between established researchers and rising stars.
Location
Huntington Place in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Organizers |
Steven Ceron
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT |
Kirstin Petersen
Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
YuFeng Chen
Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
Daniela Rus
Professor, Director of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT |
