By Stefan Rummel 05/05/2008By Stefan Rummel 05/05/2008

Prof. RudowskyProf. Rudowsky

CIS 9.5CIS 9.5

Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn College

Observing nature to find new solutions

Observing behaviourof social insects

Living in swarms

Transfer behaviourto artificial models

Explaining swarm intelligence using ants as an example

Explaining swarm intelligence using ants as an example

As an individual simple and helpless

As a group they form a collective intelligence

To solve complexproblems

Definition of swarm intelligence?

“Swarm intelligence (SI) is artificial intelligence based on the

collective behavior of decentralized, self- organized systems”

Modelling swarm behaviour

Ants find the shortest, and fastest way to a food source

Using pheromones to communicate

Food Food

Marco Dorigo Developed mathematical

algorithm With the help of

computer simulation of artifical ant

Modelling swarm behaviour for the „travelling salesman problem“

Wikipedia as an example of swarm behaviour

Collaborative Film Making Project „A swarm of Angels“

Fund Film Flow

Towards open source,collaborative Media

Swarm intelligence and Robotics

Swarm-bot project

Robots using swarm behaviour

Search & Rescue

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