TY - GEN
T1 - On homeostasis in collective robotic systems
AU - Timmis, Jon
AU - Tyrrell, Andy
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The biological term Homeostasis refers to an organisms ability to maintain steady states of operation in a massively changing internal and external environment. Pervasive Adaptive (PerAda) systems operate in potentially hostile environments where there is a need to cope with a wide variety of changes, over multiple timescales, deal with interacting agents, cope with degraded data and cope with failing components. In the context of this paper, we consider the case of a swarm, and organism, of robotic units, as those developed as part of the SYMBRION project. Such a collective robotic system can be considered a case of a PerAda system. Our position is that for such systems to operate for extended periods of time, without human intervention, they should be homeostatic and that it is possible to develop such homeostatic PerAda systems inspired by the immune system.
AB - The biological term Homeostasis refers to an organisms ability to maintain steady states of operation in a massively changing internal and external environment. Pervasive Adaptive (PerAda) systems operate in potentially hostile environments where there is a need to cope with a wide variety of changes, over multiple timescales, deal with interacting agents, cope with degraded data and cope with failing components. In the context of this paper, we consider the case of a swarm, and organism, of robotic units, as those developed as part of the SYMBRION project. Such a collective robotic system can be considered a case of a PerAda system. Our position is that for such systems to operate for extended periods of time, without human intervention, they should be homeostatic and that it is possible to develop such homeostatic PerAda systems inspired by the immune system.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-14547-6_25
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-14547-6_25
M3 - Conference Proceeding (Non-Journal item)
AN - SCOPUS:77955915840
SN - 3642145469
SN - 9783642145469
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 307
EP - 309
BT - Artificial Immune Systems - 9th International Conference, ICARIS 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 9th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2010
Y2 - 26 July 2010 through 29 July 2010
ER -