Swarm Stability and Optimization

• Main Authors: Gazi, Veysel (Author), Passino, Kevin M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Image processing.; Computational intelligence.; Control engineering.; Robotics.; Mechatronics.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.

Swarming species such as flocks of birds or schools of fish exhibit fascinating collective behaviors during migration and predator avoidance.  Similarly, engineered multi-agent dynamic systems such as groups of autonomous ground, underwater, or air vehicles (“vehicle swarms”) exhibit sophisticated c...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Basic Principles
• Part II Continuous Time Swarms
• Part III Discrete Time Swarms
• Part IV Swarm Based Optimization Methods.