A flexible decentralised communication architecture on a field programmable gate array for swarm system simulations

Antonio Gomez Zamorano*, Jon Timmis, Andy Tyrrell

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Abstract

Swarm systems consist of a number of relatively simple agents that interact with each other to afford a complex behaviour. Such swarm systems are inherently parallel but as yet little work has focussed on the development of specific hardware platforms that might take advantage of such parallelism. This paper proposes a hardware platform for the implementation of swarm system simulations, using a case study of Reynolds' boids. Our platform provides a flexible decentralised intelligent bus communication architecture designed to provide effective communication between agents on a hardware platform.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011
PublisherIEEE Press
Pages230-237
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781424478347
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011 - New Orleans, LA, United States of America
Duration: 05 Jun 201108 Jun 2011

Publication series

Name2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
CityNew Orleans, LA
Period05 Jun 201108 Jun 2011

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