TY - GEN
T1 - Towards exogenous fault detection in swarm robotic systems
AU - Millard, Alan G.
AU - Timmis, Jon
AU - Winfield, Alan F.T.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - It has long been assumed that swarm systems are robust, in the sense that the failure of individual robots will have little detrimental effect on a swarm's overall collective behaviour. However, Bjerknes and Winfield [1] have recently shown that this is not always the case, particularly in the event of partial failures (such as motor failure). The reliability modelling in [1] shows that overall system reliability rapidly decreases with swarm size, therefore this is a problem that cannot simply be solved by adding more robots to the swarm. Instead, future large-scale swarm systems will need an active approach to dealing with failed individuals if they are to achieve a high level of fault tolerance.
AB - It has long been assumed that swarm systems are robust, in the sense that the failure of individual robots will have little detrimental effect on a swarm's overall collective behaviour. However, Bjerknes and Winfield [1] have recently shown that this is not always the case, particularly in the event of partial failures (such as motor failure). The reliability modelling in [1] shows that overall system reliability rapidly decreases with swarm size, therefore this is a problem that cannot simply be solved by adding more robots to the swarm. Instead, future large-scale swarm systems will need an active approach to dealing with failed individuals if they are to achieve a high level of fault tolerance.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904187157&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_44
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_44
M3 - Conference Proceeding (Non-Journal item)
AN - SCOPUS:84904187157
SN - 9783662436448
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 429
EP - 430
BT - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Nature
T2 - 14th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2013
Y2 - 28 August 2013 through 30 August 2013
ER -