E-SWARM: Engineering Swarm Intelligence Systems. E-SWARM is a project funded by the European Research Council - Advanced Grants program of the European Union (Grant 246939). Its goal is to develop a rigorous engineering methodology for the design and implementation of artificial swarm intelligence systems. 2010-2015.
H2SWARM: Hierarchical Heterogeneous Swarm, funded by the European Science Foundation within the EUROCORES programme "Bio-inspired Engineering of Sensors, Actuators & Systems (EuroBioSAS)". 2011-2014.
Meta-X: Metaheuristics for Complex Optimization Problems, a Action de Recherche Concertée (ARC) research award. 2008-2013.
Swarm-Morph. F.R.S.-FNRS research award. 2009-2010.
Swarmanoid: Towards Humanoid Robotic Swarms. Swarmanoid was a project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community (IST-022888). Its goal was the design, implementation and control of a swarmanoid, that is, a novel distributed robotic system made of heterogeneous, dynamically connected, small autonomous robots. 2006-2010
Virtual Swarmanoid. FNRS research award. 2007-2008.
Evolving a collective consciousness for a swarm of pico-satellites. This was a 4-month study funded by the ARIADNA programme of the European Space Agency. October 2007 - January 2008.
ECAgents: Embodied and Communicating Agents. ECAgents was a project sponsored by the Future and Emerging Technologies program of the European Community (IST-1940). The aim of the project was the development of a new generation of embodied agents that are able to interact directly with the physical world and to communicate between them and with other agents. 2004-2007.
ANTS: Towards a Foundation of Ant Algorithms. ANTS was a project within the framework of the "Action de Recherche Concertée" (ARC) projects funded by the French Community of Belgium. It was aimed at studying, both theoretically and experimentally, ant algorithms. 2003-2008.
Virtual Swarm-bots FNRS research award. 2002-2003.
METAHEURISTICS NETWORK: The Metaheuristics Network was a project sponsored by the Improving Human Potential program of the European Community (HPRN-CT-1999-00106). It was aimed at studying various metaheuristics on different combinatorial optimization problems. 2000-2004.
EvoNeuroFuzzy: Training in Soft Computing Techniques for Optimization and Control. The EvoNeuroFuzzy training site was a project sponsored by the Improving Human Potential program of the European Community (HPMT-CT-2000-00032). It was aimed at training young researchers in the field of soft computing techniques for optimization and control such as fuzzy computing, evolutionary computation, neural computing, ant algorithms, and probabilistic reasoning. 2000-2004.
Beowulf style cluster of PCs, reseach award. 2000-2001.