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Author:   William M. Spears ,  Diana F. Spears
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   2012
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.172kg
ISBN:  

9783642228032

ISBN 10:   3642228038
Pages:   646
Publication Date:   05 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I - Introduction Chap. 1 - Nature Is Lazy Chap. 2 - NetLogo and Physics Chap. 3 - NetLogo and Physicomimetics Chap. 4 - Pushing the Envelope Part II - Robotic Swarm Applications Chap. 5 - Local Oriented Potential Fields: Self-deployment and Coordination of an Assembling Swarm of Robots Chap. 6 - Physicomimetics for Distributed Control of Mobile Aquatic Sensor Networks in Bioluminescent Environments Chap. 7 - Gas-Mimetic Swarms for Surveillance and Obstacle Avoidance Chap. 8 - A Multirobot Chemical Source Localization Strategy Based on Fluid Physics: Theoretical Principles Chap. 9 - A Multirrobot Chemical Source Localization Strategy Based on Fluid Physics: Experimental Results Part III - Physicomimetics on Hardware Robots Chap. 10 - What Is a Maxelbot? Chap. 11 - Uniform Coverage Chap. 12 - Chain Formations Chap. 13 - Physicomimetic Motion Control of Physically Constrained Agents Part IV - Prediction, Adaptation, and Swarm Engineering Chap. 14 - Adaptive Learning by Robot Swarms in Unfamiliar Environments Chap. 15 - A Statistical Framework for Estimating the Success Rate of Liquid-Mimetic Swarms Chap. 16 - Physicomimetic Swarm Design Considerations: Modularity, Scalability, Heterogeneity, and the Prediction Versus Control Dilemma Chap. 17 - Using Swarm Engineering to Design Physicomimetic Swarms Part V - Function Optimization Chap. 18 - Artificial Physics Optimization Algorithm for Global Optimization Chap. 19 - Artificial Physics for Noisy Nonstationary Environments App. A - Anomalous Behavior of the Random Number Generator Index References

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Dr. William Spears is the CEO of Swarmotics LLC, a company that provides consulting expertise in distributed agents, sensing networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and swarm robotics; he was formerly a professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, Laramie. Dr. Diana Spears was a professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, and is currently a director of Swarmotics, LLC.

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