History Halva
History (past work)
My past research focused on methods for task allocation and division of labour in a group of robots.
At the beginning, I implemented a mechanism for division of labour in a group of robots. The particular algorithm was inspired by ants' foraging behaviour. I studied its characteristics and features in a set of experiments with real robots and in simulation.
The knowledge obtained by this work was used then to compare different solutions to the division-of-labour problem. Different algorithms from the literature were adapted for a prey retrieval task and tested in common and fair environment. The experiments allow us to draw reliable conclusions about which is the most efficient or the most performing algorithm.
Conferences attended
| Name | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| From Worker to Colony: Understanding the Organisation of Insect Societies | Cambridge, UK | December 7-8, 2001 |
| IEEE International Conference on System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC2002) | Hammamet, Tunisia | October 6-9, 2002 |
| Third International Workshop on Ants Algorithm (ANTS 2002) | Brussels, Belgium | September 12-14, 2002 |
| First International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology (Bio-ADIT2004) | Lausanne, Switzerland | January 29-30, 2004 |
| Seventh International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS04) | Toulouse, France | June 23-25, 2004 |
| Fourth International Worhshop on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence | Brussels, Belgium | September 5-8, 2004 |
Summer schools
| Name | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Summer School on Co-operative Robotics | Lisbon, Portugal | September 2-7, 2002 |
Visits
| Name of the lab visited | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Computer Science 7 - Computer Networks and Communication Systems - Elangen-Nürnberg University | Erlangen, Germany | November 1, 2005 - Now |
Paper published
The complete list is here.
Papers submitted
| Title | Journal/Conference | Download link | Bibtex link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Division of Labour in a Group of Robots Inspired by Antsâ Foraging Behaviour | ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) | NA | NA |
| SWARM-BOT: Design and Implementation of Colonies of Self-assembling Robots | Artificial Intelligence Journal | NA | NA |
Technical reports
See here.
Contributions to the lab life
Not many ;-)
Just a couple of things on the server, the cluster and on a couple of computers....
Holidays taken during the PhD studies
Not so many, just a couple of weekends in Germany :-)
