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SUMMARY:Controlling imperfect robot swarms  - Hector Garcia de Marina\, Un
 iversidad de Granada
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CONTACT:Xiaodong Cheng
DESCRIPTION:Swarm technology will enable reconfigurable robotic tasks that
  require high resilience and boundless scaling\, especially in vast\, unst
 ructured\, and dynamic environments. A robot swarm can be defined as a dec
 entralized multi-robot system that\, through only local interactions\, can
  exhibit a collective behavior that facilitates the realization of tasks w
 ell beyond the reach of an individual. However\, in contrast with the cont
 rol of individuals\, control laws for robot swarms are incredibly fragile 
 against imperfections. In general\, tiny imperfections in sensing and actu
 ation are amplified throughout large numbers of robots and rapidly erode a
 nd make unpredictable the overall performance of the robot swarm. Notwiths
 tanding\, imperfections can result in surprising complex emergent behavior
 s such as intricate trajectory patterns of mobile robot swarms.\n\nThis ta
 lk will explore how to unleash and ally with imperfections in sensing and 
 actuation instead of suppressing their ``damaging'' effects as a formal st
 rategy to control emergent behaviors of robot swarms.\n
LOCATION:Baker Building - Board Room\, Department of Engineering / Online 
 (Zoom)
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