SWARM-ORGAN
A theoretical framework for swarms of GRN-controlled agents which display adaptive tissue-like organisation
| Coordinatore | FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA
Organization address
address: Doctor Aiguader 88 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Spain [ES] |
| Totale costo | 2˙877˙122 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙221˙000 € |
| Programma | FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies |
| Code Call | FP7-ICT-2011-9 |
| Funding Scheme | CP |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-03-01 - 2016-08-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA
Organization address
address: Doctor Aiguader 88 contact info |
ES (BARCELONA) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
JOHN INNES CENTRE
Organization address
address: Norwich Research Park, Colney contact info |
UK (NORWICH) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Organization address
address: SPUI 21 contact info |
NL (AMSTERDAM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY
Organization address
address: Stag Hill contact info |
UK (GUILDFORD) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
The Swarm-Organ project focuses on systems containing large numbers of autonomous but relatively simple agents, whose goal is to collectively organise themselves into complex spatial arrangements despite each agent having only local awareness. This particular question is directly relevant to both biological morphogenesis, and to new paradigms of distributed technology such as robotic swarms and amorphous computing. Two levels of adaptation are either evident or required in these systems: (1) As the whole system changes over time, individual agents find themselves in different local situations and must adapt and adjust their behavior accordingly, for example dealing with conflict resolution and/or cooperation with neighbours. (2) The swarm must also adapt to the outside world (or the world it is embedded in) in various ways depending on its task – for example, coping with damage, maintaining functionality under changing environmental conditions, or tracking objects. A fundamental challenge in this field is how to design the local control system of each agent, and the Swarm-Organ project will extensively explore a specific approach – namely the use of GRNs (gene regulatory networks) – as a potentially powerful control method for these systems. By focusing on GRNs we will develop a theoretical framework about distributed adaptive control, which will be equally informative to both natural biological morphogenesis, as well as next generation technologies in robotics and computation.