TY - GEN
T1 - On the evolution of mechanisms for collective decision making in a swarm of robots
AU - ALMANSOORI, Ahmed
AU - Mohammed, Muhanad Hayder Mohammed
AU - COLIN, Jean-Noel
AU - Tuci, Elio
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Collective decision-making refers to a process of generating a group decision which cannot be attributed to any agent in the group. In swarm robotics, the individual mechanisms for collective decision making are generally hand-designed and limited to a restricted set of solutions based on the voter or the majority model. This study demonstrates that it is possible to take an alternative approach in which the individual mechanisms are implemented using artificial neural network controllers automatically synthesised using evolutionary computation techniques. We qualitatively describe the group dynamics underpinning the collective process leading to consensus. Moreover, this study demonstrates the evolutionary-tailored mechanisms do not follow the principles of the classic hand-coded solutions.
AB - Collective decision-making refers to a process of generating a group decision which cannot be attributed to any agent in the group. In swarm robotics, the individual mechanisms for collective decision making are generally hand-designed and limited to a restricted set of solutions based on the voter or the majority model. This study demonstrates that it is possible to take an alternative approach in which the individual mechanisms are implemented using artificial neural network controllers automatically synthesised using evolutionary computation techniques. We qualitatively describe the group dynamics underpinning the collective process leading to consensus. Moreover, this study demonstrates the evolutionary-tailored mechanisms do not follow the principles of the classic hand-coded solutions.
KW - Automatic design
KW - Collective decision making
KW - Swarm robotics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85148687909&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_11
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85148687909
SN - 9783031239281
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 109
EP - 120
BT - Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation - 15th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2021, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Schneider, Johannes Josef
A2 - Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel
A2 - Weyland, Mathias Sebastian
A2 - Flumini, Dandolo
A2 - Schneider, Johannes Josef
A2 - Füchslin, Rudolf Marcel
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 15th International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, WIVACE 2021
Y2 - 15 September 2021 through 17 September 2021
ER -