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| * [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~stuetzle|Thomas Stützle (IRIDIA)]] | * [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~stuetzle|Thomas Stützle (IRIDIA)]] | ||
| * [[http://code.ulb.ac.be/iridia.people.php?id=1393|Alberto Franzin (IRIDIA)]] | * [[http://code.ulb.ac.be/iridia.people.php?id=1393|Alberto Franzin (IRIDIA)]] | ||
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| - | ===== Collective Decision Making with Heterogeneous Agents ===== | ||
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| - | Swarm robotics is an interesting approach to the coordination of hundreds of robots as it promotes the realization of systems which are scalable, robust and flexible. | ||
| - | The master thesis will study how to provide a swarm system with the cognitive capability of collective decision making. | ||
| - | Each agent has partial knowledge of the available alternatives and of their quality estimate, however the swarm, as a whole, is able to decide for the best option. Recently, numerous works have studied strategies and algorithms to implement this process in distributed systems (often taking inspiration from biology, e.g., bees or cockroaches behaviour). One of the common characteristic of these works is that all the agents of the swarm has the same behaviour. In the Master Thesis project, the student will study how heterogeneity influences the global outcome. We will consider heterogeneity both in the individual behaviour (for instance, robots can estimate different option characteristics) and in the interaction network. | ||
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| - | In practice, the student is supposed to (i) model the collective decision making problem | ||
| - | (ii) design and implement multi-agents simulations, and (iii) analyse and discuss the obtained | ||
| - | results. Depending on the student skills and preferences, the work can focus more on theoretical | ||
| - | aspects, thus favouring the modelling and analysis of the problem, or can be more practical, | ||
| - | thus centring the thesis on the multi-agent implementation part. Possibly, a more practical | ||
| - | thesis could result (depending on the student skills) in the implementation of a real world | ||
| - | demonstrator with a swarm of up to 100 robots. | ||
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| - | * Contacts : [[http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo|Marco Dorigo]] and Andreagiovanni Reina (IRIDIA) | ||