On Adaptive Self-Organization in Artificial Robot Organisms

Self-organization in natural systems demonstrates very reliable and scalable collective behavior without using anycentral elements. When providing collective robotic systemswith self-organizing principles, we are facing new problems of making self-organization purposeful, self-adapting to changing environments and faster, in order to meet requirements from a technical perspective. This paper describes on-going work of creating such an artificial self-organization within artificial robot organisms, performed in the framework of several European projects.

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