Swarmfare - When the shit hits a thousand fans
summary
Experiments use 7 cm EPFL robots with a binary light sensor and tiny reactive rules that produce reliable phototaxis through emergent aggregation within minutes, and swarms withstand many single-robot failures but fail under certain partial faults. Task allocation uses decentralized auctions that reach about 95% of centralized performance in simulations and field tests. Software stack Valkyrie (now commercialized by Six Robotics) is drone-agnostic, supports rapid renegotiation among dozens to thousands of vehicles, and the company grows from 2 to 40 employees in a year.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to swarm warfare
- 2:27Biological origins of swarms
- 7:11Dictyostelium and swarm robotics
- 11:29Emergent behavior in robots
- 20:11Strategic multi-agent systems
- 25:52Paradoxes in collective systems
- 34:22Mathematical models for swarms
- 36:38The Valkyrie system in defense
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