Decision Making in Biological and Synthetic / Robotic Swarms

Go to the Locust and be wise

Nature provides us with countless examples of swarms—aggregates of many individuals, each acting and making individual decisions in a shared environment, in a highly distributed asynchronous manner, based on limited perception of the individual’s immediate surroundings. Despite these severe limitations, swarms can produce group behavior that seems mindful: goal oriented, coordinated, and robust……

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This innovative methodology for swarm research seeks to push the science towards its interdisciplinary roots, and specifically for the case of locusts, carry the promise of addressing catastrophic agricultural problems that have plagued humanity for thousands of years.