Swarm OS: collective intelligence for robots
One of the most impressive presentations at a technology festival in Kentucky was arranged ... a group of several dozen robots. They demonstrated tremendous ability to act independently, as if they constituted a single large organism that needed only minimal remote control. This was made possible by the Swarm OS operating system, which was developed by a postgraduate student at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James McLurkin. The communication system between robots is modeled on the one that operates in the families of bees and ants: the nearby individuals transmit a signal to each other and the whole huge group behaves as a single whole.
In the collective mind system, the coordinated and rational behavior of a group is determined not so much by the intelligence of individual individuals, but by the developed language of their interaction. For example, the same ants can add and remove only small simple numbers in their minds, but at the same time, the symbolic language of ants is very developed. It provides for the transfer of numbers and formulas, the assignment of constants for frequently occurring formulas (to reduce traffic between individuals), etc. Bees are able to transmit each other the exact coordinates of the objects (taking into account the position of the Sun) through the dance. In each hive there is a specially equipped place where the reconnaissance bee performs circular and wagging movements upon returning to the family, after which the exact coordinates of the distant object are known to all relatives.
The Swarm OS system for robots is a kind of complex language of group animals, although in a highly simplified form, since the language of ants and the dance of bees formed tens of millions of years ago and has not yet been fully decoded.
Evgeny Morozov, who was present at the festival, in his blog recounts Maklyurkin’s presentation in detail . He says that, at the command of a scientist, the robots lined up on the stage, then he ordered the robots to scatter in different directions and fill the stage - they did that. True, a small problem was discovered: the robots did not control their distance from the nearest neighbor, so they simply fell out of the network when they went beyond the limits of the radio signal.
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The Swarm OS operating system has a built-in search engine, so that any robot can find any other by its identification number. At the same time in the search for help other robots. At the end of the presentation, the robots left the stage in the order of their numbers.
The collective intelligence for robots is an extremely sought-after technology. It can be used to organize rescue operations after natural disasters or, for example, in the process of exploration of the Moon and Mars, which will begin in the coming years.
In the collective mind system, the coordinated and rational behavior of a group is determined not so much by the intelligence of individual individuals, but by the developed language of their interaction. For example, the same ants can add and remove only small simple numbers in their minds, but at the same time, the symbolic language of ants is very developed. It provides for the transfer of numbers and formulas, the assignment of constants for frequently occurring formulas (to reduce traffic between individuals), etc. Bees are able to transmit each other the exact coordinates of the objects (taking into account the position of the Sun) through the dance. In each hive there is a specially equipped place where the reconnaissance bee performs circular and wagging movements upon returning to the family, after which the exact coordinates of the distant object are known to all relatives.
The Swarm OS system for robots is a kind of complex language of group animals, although in a highly simplified form, since the language of ants and the dance of bees formed tens of millions of years ago and has not yet been fully decoded.
Evgeny Morozov, who was present at the festival, in his blog recounts Maklyurkin’s presentation in detail . He says that, at the command of a scientist, the robots lined up on the stage, then he ordered the robots to scatter in different directions and fill the stage - they did that. True, a small problem was discovered: the robots did not control their distance from the nearest neighbor, so they simply fell out of the network when they went beyond the limits of the radio signal.
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The Swarm OS operating system has a built-in search engine, so that any robot can find any other by its identification number. At the same time in the search for help other robots. At the end of the presentation, the robots left the stage in the order of their numbers.
The collective intelligence for robots is an extremely sought-after technology. It can be used to organize rescue operations after natural disasters or, for example, in the process of exploration of the Moon and Mars, which will begin in the coming years.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/14201/
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