Project summary
In the last 15 years, research in swarm intelligence has generated a substantial amount of knowledge on the modeling and control of swarms of interacting agents. This has happened across a number of different disciplines (theoretical biology, operations research, and robotics are just a few examples) following a mainly experimental approach.
Early results of swarm intelligence research are highly promising and provide clear avenues of exploration for future research.
The E-SWARM project will contribute to the development of an engineering methodology for the construction of artificial swarm intelligence systems based on rigorous scientific foundations. In this way, artificial swarm intelligence systems can become a well-understood tool in the hands of scientists and engineers. The E-SWARM project will therefore have a fundamental impact on the field of swarm intelligence. Additionally, we expect the project to have a strong impact also on the research domains that we have chosen for our case studies via the development of innovative solutions to the different problems that will be studied.
Currently, the two main E-SWARM case studies are Swarm Robotics and Swarm Optimization.
