The successful deployment of complex, multi-agent systems requires well-designed, agent-level control strategies that accommodate sensing, communication, and computational limitations on individual agents. Indeed, many applications demand system-level dynamics to be robust to disturbance and adaptive in the face of changes in the environment. Remarkably, animal groups, from bird flocks to fish schools, exhibit just such robust and adaptive behaviors, even as individual animals have their own limitations. To better understand and leverage the parallels between networks in nature and design, a principled examination of collective dynamics is warranted. I will describe an analytical framework based on nonlinear dynamical systems theory for the realization of collective decision-making that allows for the rigorous study of the mechanisms of observed collective animal behavior together with the design of distributed strategies for collective dynamics with provable performance.
Information on participating / attending:
Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.
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Date:
06/06/2016 14:00 - 06/06/2016 15:30
Event venue:
Location: Max Planck Institute Stuttgart, Heisenbergstr. 1
Room: Lecture Hall 2D 5
Host: Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
70569 Stuttgart-Büsnau
Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Biology, Information technology, Materials sciences, Mechanical engineering, Physics / astronomy
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/11/2016
Sender/author:
Annette Stumpf
Department:
Public Relations - Standort Stuttgart
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event54266
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