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We introduce a swarm design methodology. The methodology uses a seven step process involving a high-level phase space to map the desired goal to a set of behaviors, castes, deployment schedules, and provably optimized strategies. We illustrate the method on the stick-pulling task.
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Kazadi, S., Jin, D., Li, M. (2015). Utilizing Abstract Phase Spaces in Swarm Design and Validation. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Buarque, F., Gelbukh, A., Das, S., Engelbrecht, A. (eds) Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence. ICSI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9140. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20466-6_2
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