Human interaction with robot swarms (HSI) is a young field with very few user studies that explore operator behavior. All these studies assume perfect communication between the operator and the swarm. A key challenge in the use of swarm robotic systems in human supervised tasks is to understand human swarm interaction in the presence of limited communication bandwidth, which is a constraint ari...

Swarm intelligence can provide robust, adaptable, scalable solutions to difficult problems. The distributed nature of swarm activity is the basis of these desirable qualities, but it also prevents swarm-based techniques from having direct access to global knowledge that could facilitate the task at hand. Our experiments indicate that a swarm system can use an auxiliary swarm, called a communica...

This paper presents a new approach to control robots, which can quickly find their swarm while tracking a moving target through the obstacles of the environment. In this approach, an artificial potential field is generated between each free-robot and the virtual attractive point of the swarm. This artificial potential field will lead free-robots to their swarm. The swarm-finding of these freero...

Swarm Intelligence is the global intelligent behaviour emerged from the interaction of groups of simple agents. The existing swarm intelligence research mainly refers to swarm intelligence optimization, which with ant colony optimization and particle swarm optimization as a representative. And the relevant research work focuses on the performance improvements of the optimization algorithm, whic...

We specify an “individual-based” continuous-timemodel for swarm aggregation in n-dimensional Euclidean space. We show that the swarm is completely stable, and the center of the swarm is stationary. Numerical simulations indicate that the individuals will form a stable and cohesive swarm, and under the attraction/repulsion function, the bound of the swarm size will increase as the number of indi...

Evolutionary algorithm and Swarm Intelligence algorithm (EA, SI), a part of Bio inspired optimization algorithm, have been widely used to solve numerous optimization problem in various science and engineering domains. This paper proposes a Multi Swarm Particle Swarm Optimization (MS-PSO) algorithm inspired by the animal collective behavior, the movement of the swarm and the intelligence of the ...

Human-swarm interaction is an emerging field encompassing questions related to biology, robotics, computer science, human-computer interaction, and psychology. Swarms are large groups of individual entities that enact group behaviors; biological examples include fish, birds and insects. Swarms overwhelm humans’ abilities to monitor and interact with each entity. Human-robot and human-computer i...

The robotics team at Utah State University has been working on incrementally building the capabilities needed to field an autonomous swarm of rescue robots. We believe a swarm of small, low-cost robots that can identify areas needing further investigation would be of great benefit to first responders to the scene of a disaster. Blue Swarm 3 is the latest iteration in this development process an...

In order to overcome the basic glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm in the high dimension space function optimization effect is poor defects. This paper, we introduce the idea of the traditional complex method, with the complex method the worst part of the glowworm guidance for reflection be good glowworm swarm, so as to continuously make the worst glowworm swarm become the better glowwo...