MetaSwarmX: Decentralized Swarms of Swarms of Heterogeneous Agents
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Title: MetaSwarmX: Decentralized Swarms of Swarms of Heterogeneous Agents
Summary: As robotics technology continues to innovate large collections of robotic agents have become more sophisticated and accessible leading to their use in both civilian and military applications. Many of these applications treat the collection as a multi-robot system that is controlled in a centralized fashion, which can be useful and have many applications but this isn't swarm robotics. The MetaSwarmX project aims to develop algorithms that can be used for swarms of swarms (a MetaSwarm) of heterogeneous robots solving problems without human intervention in a decentralized and scalable fashion. These algorithms will be built with civilian applications in mind as a means to develop novel applications with this emergent technology. The subject of swarm intelligence, the emergent technology, the potential of the robots, and the goals and status of the MetaSwarmX project will be discussed.
Bibliography: Dr. Michael Dubé studied novel representations for evolutionary algorithms with applications to epidemic modelling and biological sequence discovery completing his PhD in Bioinformatics and MSc in Computer Science in Canada. Now, he studies decentralized swarm intelligence with swarms of robots while completing his post-doc at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He aims to be a teaching-focused professor in Computer Science, where he will bring the energy and passion to everything he does; which may mean starting class with a cheer about being excited to learn!
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- Starts 26 November 2025 04:00 AM UTC
- Ends 10 December 2025 04:00 AM UTC
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Michael Dubé
MetaSwarmX: Decentralized Swarms of Swarms of Heterogeneous Agents
As robotics technology continues to innovate large collections of robotic agents have become more sophisticated and accessible leading to their use in both civilian and military applications. Many of these applications treat the collection as a multi-robot system that is controlled in a centralized fashion, which can be useful and have many applications but this isn't swarm robotics. The MetaSwarmX project aims to develop algorithms that can be used for swarms of swarms (a MetaSwarm) of heterogeneous robots solving problems without human intervention in a decentralized and scalable fashion. These algorithms will be built with civilian applications in mind as a means to develop novel applications with this emergent technology. The subject of swarm intelligence, the emergent technology, the potential of the robots, and the goals and status of the MetaSwarmX project will be discussed.
Biography:
Dr. Michael Dubé studied novel representations for evolutionary algorithms with applications to epidemic modelling and biological sequence discovery completing his PhD in Bioinformatics and MSc in Computer Science in Canada. Now, he studies decentralized swarm intelligence with swarms of robots while completing his post-doc at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He aims to be a teaching-focused professor in Computer Science, where he will bring the energy and passion to everything he does; which may mean starting class with a cheer about being excited to learn!