A Survey of Swarm Intelligence

A survey of swarm intelligent system is presented.Large amount of simple individuals have more advantages over a single complex one.Thus,swarm intelligence provides a new way to solve complex problems without global control.Firstly the prolific research results in this field are illustrated involving typical algorithms,applications and swarm-based robotics.On the basis of that,the future directions in this field are analyzed.Finally,the significance of study on swarm intelligence is pointed out in the conclusion.