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From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:45:34Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2013_Formalization_,_Implementation_,_and_Modeling_of_Institutional_Controllers_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems_(in_print).pdf|PDF]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:iros2011.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:45:05Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:http://mediawiki.isr.ist.utl.pt/wiki/File:Pereira_et_al._2013_Formalization_,_Implementation_,_and_Modeling_of_Institutional_Controllers_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems_(in_print).pdf|PDF]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:iros2011.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:39:24Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:SPereira et al._2013_Formalization , Implementation , and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems (in print)|PDF]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:iros2011.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:33:36Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|NAO-HAVERA-UM-RASCUNHO]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Enhanced Directional Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:iros2011.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:32:43Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|NAO-HAVERA-UM-RASCUNHO]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:iros2011.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:18:38Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|NAO-HAVERA-UM-RASCUNHO]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:06:56Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:05:42Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press [[Media:si2013.pdf|PDF]]

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:04:13Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T17:02:39Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|FALTA-FALTA]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:ants2010.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:59:45Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2010_Coordination_Through_Institutional_Roles_in_Robot_Collectives.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:57:29Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-PARA-ISTO????]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:55:39Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|ONDE-ESTA-ISTO???]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:53:46Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDFSSS]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:50:20Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:ecal2011.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:48:58Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Pereira_et_al._2011_Formalizing_Institutions_as_Executable_Petri_Nets_for_Distributed_Robotic_Systems.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:45:47Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:wrem2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:42:28Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:erlars2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:40:04Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Sab2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:38:38Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Iros2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:37:30Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_ICARIS2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:35:12Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:34:44Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:http://mediawiki.isr.ist.utl.pt/wiki/File:Tarapore_AAMAS2013.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:31:13Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I> [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559. [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:28:59Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

* José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

* J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS.

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257.

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online)

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring.
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:28:41Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Journals */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

<html><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></html>

Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

José N. Pereira, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, Alcherio Martinoli, "Formalization, Implementation, and Modeling of Institutional Controllers for Distributed Robotic Systems", Artificial Life, 20(1), 2013, in press

J. Gomes, P. Urbano, and A. L. Christensen (2013), "Evolution of Swarm Robotics Systems with Novelty Search", Swarm Intelligence, in press

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS.

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257.

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online)

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring.
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:27:22Z

Porfiriosilva: /* International Conferences */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

<html><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></html>

Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2013). Abnormality detection in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS XII, pages 23?30. IFAAMAS.

* D.Tarapore, Christensen, A. L., Lima, P. U., and Carneiro, J. (2012). Clonal expansion without self-replicating entities. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS XI, pages 191?204. Springer, Berlin, Germany.

* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady and M. Dorigo (2012), "Spatially Targeted Communication and Self-Assembly in a Heterogeneous Swarm of Robots", Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 2551-2552

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Automatic synthesis of controllers for real robots based on preprogrammed behaviors", Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive Behavior (SAB), Springer, Berlin, Germany, pages 249-257.

* M. Duarte, S. Oliveira, and A. L. Christensen (2012), "Structured Composition of Evolved Robotic Controllers", Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Evolutionary and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robot Systems, N. Siebel, Berlin, Germany, pages 19--25, ISSN 2190-5576 (print), ISSN 2190-5746 (online)

* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, R. Gross, and M. Dorigo (2012), "Self-organised Computational Structures for Real Time Analysis in Highly Distributed Environmental Monitoring", Proceedings of the IROS-2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring.
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:23:35Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

<html><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></html>

Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Silva%26Lima_Instituicao_RCL_out09.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:22:36Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

<html><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></html>

Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:22:09Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

<html><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></html>

Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Silva_OEloPerdido.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:20:52Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

<html><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="false"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mEImm1aAH_o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></html>

Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Silva_DarTempoAoTempo.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:19:16Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009) [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

2013-06-12T16:18:43Z

Porfiriosilva: /* National Journals (in Portuguese) */

[[Image:LogoIST.jpg|50px]][[Image:IGC logo.jpg]]
==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

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Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010)[[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009)[[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

From Bio-Inspired to Institutional-Inspired Collective Robotics

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==Abstract==

We seek to study and formalise laws that govern collective systems with the aim of synthesising systems of relatively simple robots that display complex behaviour individuals through local interactions. In order to achieve this endeavour, we will study both biological systems and social systems. From biology, we will focus on cell populations. A single cell is relatively simple when compared with a cell population such as a biological creature. While from sociology, we will focus on institutional economics (at the macro level, the agents can be treated as simple entities, no matter how sophisticated they may be at the micro level). Our objective is to bring together theories, ideas and inspiration from institutional economics and cell biology under a common formal framework for large robot populations modelling and analysis.

In recent years, the predominant inspiration for collective robotics modelling analysis and design has been originated from biology. In the case of swarm robotics (SR), inspiration is taken from studies of the self-organizing capabilities displayed by social insects such as ants. Drawing inspiration from these types of natural systems, SR concepts have been applied to swarms of robots with limited sensing and actuation capabilities, performing relatively simple cooperative tasks such as foraging, coverage or odour tracking.

Despite the reasonable success of SR in relatively simple applications, there is no systematic method to design individual behaviours at the micro level, including their interaction actions for the desired collective behaviour to at the macro level to emerge; in fact, the emergent nature of the collective behaviour is a principle that precludes goal- or performance-oriented design. Economics-inspired experiences within multiagent systems suggest that merely emergent processes, and simple local interactions between individuals sometimes lead to inefficient solutions to collective problems.

Economics can provide some insights on how to deal with large collective systems. Institutional Economics (IE) takes institutions – coordination devices deliberately set up by agents or evolved out of interaction – as key elements of any sophisticated society. Notwithstanding the lessons we can learn from IE, its opposition to “naturalistic” approaches can lie in the way to a unified (bio- and institutional-inspired) framework to the analysis and synthesis of collective systems.

Considering other domains in the biological landscape can be of help here. In biology, epigenetics refers to heritable phenotypic variation without genetic variation. An epigenetic approach can provide a new common ground for genetic and non-genetic views on the micro-macro link problem. Our working hypothesis regarding epigenetics is that collective systems have a state space with multiple stationary states, where the actual repertoire of inputs and outputs displayed by each agent (cell or robotic system) in a given instant, as well as the way in which these are wired within the agent (gene regulatory network in cells, and software/hardware in robotic systems), can be different even in similar or identical environments. On the basis of this hypothesis, new methods for controlling collectives, both at micro and macro levels, can be developed.

By the end of this project, we will aim at providing novel cooperation and coordination algorithms and methods for collective robotics based on a formal framework for collective systems. More specifically, we will import concepts from Biology and Economy and develop probabilistic mathematical models of the robot population dynamics under the different approaches (bio- and institutionally-inspired, and merged). This will allow us to gain further insight on their differences and similarities, relative merits, and adequateness for particular classes of systems, by predicting their performance in non-tested scenarios. Furthermore, though the project focus is on bringing multidisciplinary inspiration to design better robot collectives, we expect to provide further insight on cell biology and institutional economics mathematical modeling as a side effect.

[[Resumo / Robótica Colectiva: Da Inspiração Biológica à Inspiração Institucionalista]]

==News and Events==

===Project meetings===
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2010|Year 1 - 14-Jun-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2010|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2010]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 10-Feb-2011|Year 1 - 10-Feb-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 13-Oct-2011|Year 1 - 13-Oct-2011]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 12-Jan-2012|Year 2 - 12-Jan-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 29-May-2012|Year 2 - 29-May-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 14-Jun-2012|Year 2 - 14-Jun-2012]]
* [[BioInst: meeting 17-Apr-2013|Year 3 -17-Apr-2013]]

==Partners==

* [http://www.ist.utl.pt Instituto Superior Técnico] / [http://www.isr.ist.utl.pt Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica] (IST/ISR - leader)
* [http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência] (IGC/FCG)

==People==
* IST/ISR:
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal Pedro Manuel Urbano de Almeida Lima]
** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~alyhne Anders Lyhne Christensen]
** Porfírio Simões de Carvalho e Silva
** [http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~yoda Rodrigo Martins de Matos Ventura]
** [http://people.epfl.ch/jose.pereira José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira]

* IGC/FCG:
** [http://pages-perso.esil.univmed.fr/~chaouiya/ Claudine Chaouiya Chantegrel]
** [http://eao.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ti/Gente/Jorge/ Jorge Albino Cadeias Araujo Carneiro]
** [http://informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/ Luis Rocha]
** [http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~tguzella/ Thiago dos Santos Guzella]

==Reports==

* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep302010-Report_Task1.pdf|Task 1]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Sep072010-Report_Task2.pdf|Task 2]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262011-Report_Task3.pdf|Task 3]]
* [[Media:BioInstBots_Feb262012-SecondMilestoneReport_Tasks4-6.pdf|Tasks 4-6]]

==Media==

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Roundabout case study (from [[Institutional Robotics]]). Basic behaviours: obstacles avoidance, wall following.

<html><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zKw1bwccnKA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></html>

Wireless connected swarm with 40 e-puck robots, using Institutional Agent Controllers.

==Publications==
=== Books ===
* P. Silva, Das Sociedades Humanas às Sociedades Artificiais, Lisboa, Âncora, 2011

=== Theses ===

=== International Journals ===

=== National Journals (in Portuguese) ===
* P. Silva, Dar tempo ao tempo. O estudo do comportamento nas ciências do artificial e o problema das escalas temporais, Antropologia Portuguesa, 26-27, pp. 181-208

* P. Silva, O Elo Perdido das Ciências do Artificial (ou Da Economia como uma das Ciências do Artificial), Revista da Faculdade de Letras do Porto – Filosofia, II Série, Volume XXV/XXVI, pp. 149-162 (2010)

* P. Silva, J. Bustamante, Sociedades Humanas, Sociedades Artificiais: Perspectivas da Convergência, Trajectos, 16, (Primavera 2010), pp. 7-18

* P. Silva, P. Lima, Instituição, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens, 40, pp. 97-107 (2009)

=== International Conferences ===
* Danesh Tarapore, A. Christensen, Pedro Lima, J. Carneiro, "Environment classification in multiagent systems inspired by the adaptive immune system", Proc. of Artificial Life XIII - 13th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Michigan, USA, 2012 [[Media:Tarapore_Alife2012.pdf|PDF]]
* José N. Pereira, P. Silva, P. Lima, A. Martinoli, “Formalizing Institutions as Executable Petri Nets for Distributed Robotic Systems”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 646-653 – <I>invited for publication in the Artificial Life journal as one of the conference’s Best Papers</I>
* S. Oliveira, L. Nunes, A. L. Christensen, (2011), "An Experiment in Mixing Evolving and Preprogrammed Robots". Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-2011), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 605-612
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, P. Rétornaz, M. Bonani, F. Mondada, M. Dorigo (2011), "Self-Assembly based on Active Recruitment and Guidance", Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, pages 4762-4769
* M. Duarte, A. L. Christensen, S. Oliveira (2011), "Towards Artificial Evolution of Complex Behavior Observed in Insect Colonies". Proceedings of the Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, Lisbon. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 153-167
* José N. Pereira, A. L. Christensen, Porfírio Silva, Pedro Lima, "Coordination Through Institutional Roles in Robot Collectives", Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1507-1508
* R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, C. Pinciroli, and M. Dorigo, “Robots Autonomously Self-Assemble into Dedicated Morphologies to Solve Different Tasks”, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), IFAAMAS, Toronto, Canada, 2010, pages 1517-1518,
* N. Mathews, A. L. Christensen, R. O'Grady, and M. Dorigo, "Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication". Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 2010, pages 400-407.
* C. Pinciroli, R. O'Grady, A. L. Christensen, M. Dorigo, "Controlling Heterogeneous Swarms Through Minimal Communication Between Homogeneous Sub-Swarms" The Seventh International Conference on Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Intelligence (ANTS-2010), Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2010, pages 558-559.

==Links==
* [[Institutional Robotics]]
* [http://irsgroup.isr.ist.utl.pt Intelligent Robots and Systems group at IST/ISR]
* [http://qobweb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/ Quantitative Organism Biology at IGC]

==Reference Information==
* Project Reference: PTDC/EEA-CRO/104658/2008
* Start: February 2010
* End: January 2013
* Total budget: 100.000,00 EUR
* Principal Investigator: Pedro U. Lima
[[Image:FCT_logo.jpg|150px]]

==Bibliography==
* Modeling Dynamics of Cell Population Molecule Expression Distribution, D. Milutinovic, J. Carneiro, Michael Athans, Pedro Lima, Journal of on-Linear Analysis: Hybrid Systems and Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 81-94, 2007
* Milutinovic, D., & Lima, P. (2006). Modeling and Optimal Centralized Control of a Large-Size Robotic Population. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(6), 1280–1285
* Carneiro J, Leon K, Caramalho I, van den Dool C, Gardner R, Oliveira V, Bergman ML, Sepúlveda N, Paixão T, Faro J, Demengeot J. (2007) When three is not a crowd: a Crossregulation model of the dynamics and repertoire selection of regulatory CD4+ T cells. Immunol Rev. 216:48-68
* A. L. Christensen, R. O ́Grady, and M. Dorigo (2009), "From Fireflies to Fault Tolerant Swarms of Robots", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In press.
* Silva, P. and Lima, P.U.,Institutional Robotics, Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference, ECAL 2007, Springer-Verlag, pp. 595-604

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