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The UAV SwarmThe UAV SwarmThe UAV Swarm 11/15/2003 05:41 PM Imagine an enemy, fighting the Americans, and they look up and see a swarm of attacking drones! The enemy would be inundated by an innumerable flock of UAVs. From this article it appears that's just what the US Navy has in mind. With seeing huge flocks of birds heading south for the winter this time of year, it's not hard to imagine what a swarm of drones might look like: it would look like the swarm of squidlike robots from The Matrix. Intelligent flying autonomous vehicles would have inter-robot communication network so that it could organize it's own collective configuration and reconfigure in the event of losses. The ememy would really have to watch out for their droppings. This is a GrokNews Entry: (what is grok?)The UAV SwarmGrok Headline matches for The UAV SwarmPeace SwarmPeace Swarm 03/20/2003 08:31 AM Here's a little experiment in social software. I've been talking with Jack Bury, a 20-year-old American poet living in Amsterdam, who is part of a tiny start-up trying to get some traction for "Eyebees," a Microsoft IE add-in. (It'll be open sourced eventually.) The add-in puts a frame on the left of your browser that shows you up to 200 little dots (Eyebees), each representing another person in the "swarm" you've joined. Their relative position shows which pages they're currently viewing. If a few people are each looking at, say, Doc's blog, then you'll see the five Eyebees clustered... Swarm Intelligence (SI)Swarm Intelligence (SI) 01/25/2004 11:42 AM Swarm Intelligence (SI) ht tp://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~xiaodong/cec04-swarm/index.htm Such systems are made up by a population of simple agents interacting locally with one other and with their environment. Although there is typically no centralised control dictating the behaviour of the agents, local interactions ong the agents often cause a global pattern to emerge. Examples of systems like this can be found in nature, including ant colonies, bird flocking, animal herding, honey bees, bacteria, and many more. Swarm-like algorithms, such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), have already been applied successfully to solve real-world optimization problems in engineering and telecommunication. SI models have many features in common with Evolutionary Algorithms. Locusts swarm over MauritaniaLocusts swarm over Mauritania 08/05/2004 04:04 PM Particle Swarm (PSO) ToolboxParticle Swarm (PSO) Toolbox 05/30/2004 09:06 AM Regarding Bug Reporting Tax Filers Swarm To The InternetTax Filers Swarm To The Internet 04/14/2005 07:53 PM TechWeb Apr 14 2005 11:43PM GMT Report: ZigBee wireless set to swarmReport: ZigBee wireless set to swarm 08/10/2004 05:33 PM CNET News.com Aug 10 2004 9:19PM GMT Robots Swarm into Military ServiceRobots Swarm into Military Service 06/05/2005 11:13 PM The Christian Science Monitor reports on a variety of miltary swarming and flocking technologies that are in the works including North Korean surveillance robots, an iRobot swarm of 100 test robots, a US Army initiative for networked ground and aerial robots, and Frontline's security robots. The article also talks a little about larger scale swarming involving thousands of robots. Want more swarm news? A vnunet.com story covers the Gridswarm and Ultraswarm projects which will use tiny flying robots running Linux to form an airborne computer network. See also the Slashdot discussion on Gridswarm/Ultraswarm. Helicopters swarm gas station in NorwayHelicopters swarm gas station in Norway 06/11/2004 07:16 PM Mac BitTorrent client with 3D
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