Workshop on Swarming in Natural and Engineered Systems
Napa Valley, California
August 3-4, 2005

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Wednesday, August 3

The abstracts as a PDF file.

 

7:45-8:30                                Breakfast

 

8:30-8:45                               Introduction, V. Kumar, University of Pennsylvania

 

8:45-9:10                               Welcome, R. Zachery, ARO

 

9:10-9:35                                Designing a Distributed Intelligence: Are Fish Schools an Appropriate Model?

                                     J. Parrish, University of Washington

 

9:35-10:00                             Analysis of Vicsek's System with Integer-Valued Measurement Delays

                                                 A. S. Morse, Yale University

 

10:00-10:25                          Teamwork vs. congestion: on the role of scale in multi-agent mobile systems

                                    E. Frazzoli, University of California, Los Angeles

 

Chair: A.  Jadbabaie, University of Pennsylvania

 

10:25-10:35                          Coffee Break

 

10:35-11:00                          A tunable algorithm for collective decision-making by ant colonies

                                    S. Pratt, Princeton University

 

11:00-11:25                          T. Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

11:25-11:50                          The Road to Catastrophe: Stability and Collapse in 2D Driven Particle Systems

                                                A. Bertozzi, M. D'Orsogna, Y. Chuang, L. Chayes, University of California, Los Angeles

 

11:50-12:15                          Swarm Collaborative Intelligence: From Networked Control to Trust in MANET

                                                J. Baras, University of Maryland

 

Chair: D. Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

12:15-1:30                            Lunch

 

1:30-1:55                               Programming Collaborative Behavior and Pattern Formation in Bacterial Communities

                                                 R. Weiss, Princeton University

 

1:55-2:20                               Hierarchical abstractions for robotic swarms

                                    C. Belta, Boston University

 

2:20-2:45                                Controlling Sensor Network Deployment for Coverage and Connectivity

                                    G. S. Sukhatme,  University of Southern California

 

2:45-3:10                               Stable Agent Distributions

                                                K. Passino, Ohio State University

 

Chair: G. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania

 

3:10-4:45                               Posters/Coffee 

                                               

                                                Abstractions for Controlling Swarms of Robots

                                                N. Michael, V. Kumar, University of Pennsylvania

 

Distributed Receding Horizon Control of Spatially Invariant Systems

N. Motee, A. Jadbabaie, University of Pennsylvania

 

Geodesic Control Laws for Distributed Velocity Alignment in Kinematic Agents

N. Moshtagh, A. Jadbabaie,  University of Pennsylvania

 

Temporal Logic Motion Planning for Mobile Robots

G. Fainekos, G. Pappas, University of Pennsylvania

 

                                    Robust Distributed Localization and Covariance Estimation

D. Moore, D. Rus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

F. Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

                                                S. Sastry, University of California, Berkeley

 

Adaptation and Learning at All Levels (AL^2) in Intelligent Robot Teams

R. Fierro, Oklahoma State University

 

Decentralized Estimation and Control of Swarm Formation Statistics

K. Lynch, Northwestern University

 

Development Challenges for Swarm Systems

D. Gage, XPM Technologies

 

E. Adams, University of Connecticut

 

An Exhaustive Swarming Search Strategy Based on Distributed Pheromone Maps'

C. A. Erignac, Advanced Design Systems M&CT, The Boeing Company

 

Stability of discrete-time Flocks with Time Delays

B. Tanner, D. Christodoulakis, University of New Mexico

 

Coordinated Patterns of Moving Particles on Simple Orbits

F. Zhang, D. Paley, N. Leonard, R. Sepulchre, Princeton University

 

4:45-5:15                               Panel Discussion

D. Gage, XPM Technologies

M. Steinberg, ONR

S. Banda, AFRL

Moderator: S. Sastry, University of California, Berkeley

 

Thursday, August 4

8:30-8:55                               Getting even: Regulation of ant worker allocation

                                    Frederick R. Adler

 

8:55--9:20                             The Statistical Dynamics of Programmed Robotic Self-Assembly

                                     E. Klavins, University of Washington

 

9:20-9:45                               Dynamic systems over random networks

                                    M. Mesbahi, University of Washington

 

9:45-10:10                            Information and Control Architectures for Formation Maintenance

                                    B. Anderson, Australian National University and National ICT Australia

 

Chair: A. S. Morse, Yale University

 

10:10-10:30                          Coffee Break

 

10:30-10:55                            Resolving individual-level behaviors underlying distinct group search strategies in fish

                                     D. Graunbaum, University of Washington

 

10:55-11:20                           Spatial Patterns in Cooperation and Conflict

                                                 E. Justh and P. S. Krishnaprasad, University of Maryland

 

11:20-11:45                            What Can Higher Order Laplacians Do for Networked Control Systems?

                                     A. Muhammad,M. Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology

 

11:45-12:10                            Formation Control with Virtual Leaders and Reduced Communications

                                     E. H. Abed, University of Maryland

 

Chair: F. Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

12:10-1:30                             Lunch

 

1:30-1:55                               A One-Dimensional Model for Fish Schooling

                                    J. Moehlis, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

1:55-2:20                               An Experimental System for The Collaborative Control of Unmanned Air Vehicles

                                                R. Sengupta, University of California, Berkeley

 

Chair: S. Sastry, University of California, Berkeley

 

2:20-2:30                               Wrap-up

 

                    

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