An Exploration of Swarm Behavior and Design Human-Swarm Interaction Model

Abstract

Developing a robotics system is one of the greatest challenges that are able to interact with unpredictable environments in real-time. A possible solution may be to use swarm robots behaving in a self-organized manner, similar to an ant colony. Efficient mechanisms of division of labour, parallel operation and share of information among group members are key components of the tremendous ecological success of ants. Inspired by the ant colony, indeed allows the design of robust, effective and flexible robotic system. A single robot is insufficient to process information and many other aspects, thus cooperation of multi-robot are needed to complete a task in an efficient way which results in the swarm robotics (SR) system. The aim of this paper is to review significant literature on collective behaviours and methods in the SR.

 This paper will review recent accomplishments in SR and analyse existing literature. It begins with a brief overview of swarm robot, classification of behaviour and then a discussion of the importance of SR by explaining various tasks in swarm robotics. This paper described and identified the challenges that should be resolved in the SR system and their applications for real-world. Finally, this paper provided possible directions for future research and discussed the relevant challenges to be addressed in order to push forward the study based on our extensive analysis of the reviewed literature.