Project description International Partnership building and support to dialogues Show the project objective Hide the project objective The Swarm-Organ project focuses on systems containing large numbers of autonomous but relatively simple agents, whose goal is to collectively organise themselves into complex spatial arrangements despite each agent having only local awareness. This particular question is directly relevant to both biological morphogenesis, and to new paradigms of distributed technology such as robotic swarms and amorphous computing. Two levels of adaptation are either evident or required in these systems: (1) As the whole system changes over time, individual agents find themselves in different local situations and must adapt and adjust their behavior accordingly, for example dealing with conflict resolution and/or cooperation with neighbours. (2) The swarm must also adapt to the outside world (or the world it is embedded in) in various ways depending on its task – for example, coping with damage, maintaining functionality under changing environmental conditions, or tracking objects. A fundamental challenge in this field is how to design the local control system of each agent, and the Swarm-Organ project will extensively explore a specific approach – namely the use of GRNs (gene regulatory networks) – as a potentially powerful control method for these systems. By focusing on GRNs we will develop a theoretical framework about distributed adaptive control, which will be equally informative to both natural biological morphogenesis, as well as next generation technologies in robotics and computation. Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringroboticsswarm robotics Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.9.10 - FET Proactive: Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FOCAS) Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-9 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA Address Carrer doctor aiguader 88 08003 Barcelona Spain See on map Region Este Cataluña Barcelona Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Joaquim Calbó (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 723 009,00 Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands EU contribution € 533 158,00 Address Spui 21 1012WX Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Vanessa Wolters (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF SURREY United Kingdom EU contribution € 523 571,00 Address Stag hill GU2 7XH Guildford See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex West Surrey Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maria Sega-Buhalis (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window JOHN INNES CENTRE United Kingdom EU contribution € 441 262,00 Address Norwich research park colney NR4 7UH Norwich See on map Region East of England East Anglia Breckland and South Norfolk Administrative Contact Richard Doyle (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA Participation ended United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Earlham road NR4 7TJ Norwich See on map Region East of England East Anglia Norwich and East Norfolk Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Alan Walker (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
