SWARM-ORGAN

A theoretical framework for swarms of GRN-controlled agents which display adaptive tissue-like organisation

 Coordinatore FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA 

 Organization address address: Doctor Aiguader 88
city: BARCELONA
postcode: 8003

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Joaquim
Cognome: Calbó
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 933160182
Fax: +34 93 316 00 99

 Nazionalità Coordinatore Spain [ES]
 Totale costo 2˙877˙122 €
 EC contributo 2˙221˙000 €
 Programma FP7-ICT
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
 Code Call FP7-ICT-2011-9
 Funding Scheme CP
 Anno di inizio 2013
 Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) 2013-03-01   -   2016-08-31

 Partecipanti

# participant  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA

 Organization address address: Doctor Aiguader 88
city: BARCELONA
postcode: 8003

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Joaquim
Cognome: Calbó
Email: send email
Telefono: +34 933160182
Fax: +34 93 316 00 99

ES (BARCELONA) coordinator 0.00
2    JOHN INNES CENTRE

 Organization address address: Norwich Research Park, Colney
city: NORWICH
postcode: NR4 7UH

contact info
Titolo: Dr.
Nome: Richard
Cognome: Doyle
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 0 1603450890

UK (NORWICH) participant 0.00
3    UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM

 Organization address address: SPUI 21
city: AMSTERDAM
postcode: 1012WX

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Vanessa
Cognome: Wolters
Email: send email
Telefono: +31 205257876

NL (AMSTERDAM) participant 0.00
4    UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

 Organization address address: Stag Hill
city: GUILDFORD
postcode: GU2 7XH

contact info
Titolo: Ms.
Nome: Maria
Cognome: Sega-Buhalis
Email: send email
Telefono: +44 1483 683498
Fax: +44 1483 683791

UK (GUILDFORD) participant 0.00

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swarm    morphogenesis    agents    grns    biological    world    local    themselves    distributed    organ    adapt    agent   

 Obiettivo del progetto (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.

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