TY - GEN
T1 - CoCoRo - The self-aware underwater swarm
AU - Schmickl, Thomas
AU - Thenius, Ronald
AU - Möslinger, Christoph
AU - Timmis, Jon
AU - Tyrrell, Andy
AU - Read, Mark
AU - Hilder, James
AU - Halloy, Jose
AU - Campo, Alexandre
AU - Stefanini, Cesare
AU - Manfredi, Luigi
AU - Orofino, Stefano
AU - Kernbach, Serge
AU - Dipper, Tobias
AU - Sutantyo, Donny
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The EU-funded CoCoRo project studies heterogeneous swarms of AUVs used for the purposes of underwater monitoring and search. The CoCoRo underwater swarm system will combine bio-inspired motion principles with biologically-derived collective cognition mechanisms to provide a novel robotic system that is scalable, reliable and flexible with respect its behavioural potential. We will investigate and develop swarm-level emergent self-awareness, taking biological inspiration from fish, honeybees, the immune system and neurons. Low-level, local information processing will give rise to collective-level memory and cognition. CoCoRo will develop a novel bio-inspired operating system whose default behaviour will be to provide AUV shoaling functionality and the maintenance of swarm coherence. Collective discrimination of environmental properties will be processed on an individualor on a collective-level given the cognitive capabilities of the AUVs. We will investigate collective self-recognition through experiments inspired by ethology and psychology, allowing for the quantification of collective cognition.
AB - The EU-funded CoCoRo project studies heterogeneous swarms of AUVs used for the purposes of underwater monitoring and search. The CoCoRo underwater swarm system will combine bio-inspired motion principles with biologically-derived collective cognition mechanisms to provide a novel robotic system that is scalable, reliable and flexible with respect its behavioural potential. We will investigate and develop swarm-level emergent self-awareness, taking biological inspiration from fish, honeybees, the immune system and neurons. Low-level, local information processing will give rise to collective-level memory and cognition. CoCoRo will develop a novel bio-inspired operating system whose default behaviour will be to provide AUV shoaling functionality and the maintenance of swarm coherence. Collective discrimination of environmental properties will be processed on an individualor on a collective-level given the cognitive capabilities of the AUVs. We will investigate collective self-recognition through experiments inspired by ethology and psychology, allowing for the quantification of collective cognition.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84856613357&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SASOW.2011.11
DO - 10.1109/SASOW.2011.11
M3 - Conference Proceeding (Non-Journal item)
AN - SCOPUS:84856613357
SN - 9780769545455
T3 - Proceedings - 2011 5th IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2011
SP - 120
EP - 126
BT - Proceedings - 2011 5th IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2011
PB - IEEE Press
T2 - 2011 5th IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2011
Y2 - 3 October 2011 through 7 October 2011
ER -