Towards exogenous fault detection in swarm robotic systems

Millard, Alan G.; Timmis, Jon; Winfield, Alan F.T.

Abstract

It has long been assumed that swarm systems are robust, in the sense that the failure of individual robots will have little detrimental effect on a swarm’s overall collective behaviour. However, Bjerknes and Winfield [1] have recently shown that this is not always the case, particularly in the event of partial failures (such as motor failure). The reliability modelling in [1] shows that overall system reliability rapidly decreases with swarm size, therefore this is a problem that cannot simply be solved by adding more robots to the swarm. Instead, future large-scale swarm systems will need an active approach to dealing with failed individuals if they are to achieve a high level of fault tolerance.

Citation

Millard, A. G., Timmis, J., & Winfield, A. F. (2014). Towards exogenous fault detection in swarm robotic systems. In C. Melhuish, M. Witkowski, A. Natraj, & S. Cameron (Eds.), Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 429-430. Springer Berlin Heidelberg

• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2014
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 8069
• Pages: 429-430
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Book Title: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
• ISBN: 978-3-662-43644-8
• Keywords: swarm robotics, fault detection
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_44