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In prior cruises in the Atlantic, the firm has, according to Josh Broussard, its technical director, managed to scan 890 square kilometres a day using six auton

In prior cruises in the Atlantic, the firm has, according to Josh Broussard, its technical director, managed to scan 890 square kilometres a day using six autonomous submarines. With eight, Mr Broussard thinks that the new mission will be able to manage 1,200 a day—enough to have covered the original search area in just 100 days. Seems up to the job, and while 8 may not be a swarm of bees, I think for deep sea subs it works as a term.

twic 9y ago
Surely it should be a school?
- taneq 9y ago
  Pod?
  - zhte415 9y ago
    Are they running BSD (could well be so) and nerworked? If so a cluster.
    - cwilkes 9y ago
      Not nerworked but narwhaled
    - mrep 9y ago
      We need to implement paxos for these subs
- QAPereo 9y ago
  Yeah actually kidding aside, why not that? Maybe the idea is that robots are more like insects than fish, but that seems a bit exotic imo.
  - IgorPartola 9y ago
    Because a group of flying drones painted black and then we'll have a murder of drones.
  - hyperpallium 9y ago
    "Drone" comes from worker bees, so "swarm" is at least consistent. But I found drone misleading here - I thought they'd be airborne. What's the scope of "drone"?
    - Jedd 9y ago
      More importantly, worker bees aren't called drones. Drones are males - they don't actually do any work, living exclusively to have sex with a queen in spring. Once mating season is over, they are evicted from the hive to die - they are unable to fend for themselves. I believe it'd be rare to find drones as part of a swarm of bees in the normal case of a swarm. Worker bees are females. I've never heard them called anything other than a worker bee.
    - friendzis 9y ago
      First, I do not think we have textbook definition of "drone" as such words change meaning based on what technologies are actually available, but quite a lot of technical terms come from or are inspired by science fiction. While I did not read lots of science fiction and most of that was not in English, I think "drone" for a long time used to mean something like "mobile robot capable of autonomously performing a series of tasks", mostly in contexts of mining, cargo transportation and reconnaissance. Airborne association with drones is quite a recent thing with rise of "military drones" (mostly recon) and subsequently manufacturers of RC multirotors using a word distancing their products from RC toys. RC multirotors are drones only in the sense that they maintain altitude and orientation autonomously.
  - triangleman 9y ago
    They are robots and won't be traveling in one group.
- mojomark 9y ago
  A swarm is a swarm - for any biomimetic aggregation. (1) Sure, you may have a specific term for a sepecific type of swarm, but swarm is an umbrella term that covers all aggregations. Working in this field, I can say that applying common terminology is not as superficial an act as it may seem. There are similarities in the rulesets governing the dynamics of animal collectives irrespective of the working environment, so usong common terms accross disciplines of study helps avoid confusion and also helps identify points of leverage. For example, engineers building biomimetic swarms of seagliders may benefit from studying V-formations of geese, even though you don't often see sealife swimming in a V-formation. A swarm requires more than one entity whose behavior is directly affected by the behavior of another entity. One of the most fascinating interdisciplinary aspects of swarms, IMO, is the fact that all swarms can be described by Radial Distribution Functions (2), which is also how states of matter can be characterized - in terms of density and lattice structure (and even polarity in extended versions). More amazingly is that, similar to the way matter in different states yields different physical behavior (e.g. between gas, liquid, solid), it's looking more and more like swarms do the same. They may even have predictable state transition points. 1.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour (See bilogical swarming) 2.) The use of radial distribution and pair‐correlation functions to analyze and describe biological aggregations: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.4319/lom.2006.4.382/pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiFnqqL27vYAhUI6yYKHQK0An0QFghOMAo&usg=AOvVaw3HwVp92i8sa-DegIetM-W4 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...

twic 9y ago

Surely it should be a school?

taneq 9y ago
Pod?
- zhte415 9y ago
  Are they running BSD (could well be so) and nerworked? If so a cluster.
  - cwilkes 9y ago
    Not nerworked but narwhaled
  - mrep 9y ago
    We need to implement paxos for these subs
QAPereo 9y ago
Yeah actually kidding aside, why not that? Maybe the idea is that robots are more like insects than fish, but that seems a bit exotic imo.
- IgorPartola 9y ago
  Because a group of flying drones painted black and then we'll have a murder of drones.
- hyperpallium 9y ago
  "Drone" comes from worker bees, so "swarm" is at least consistent. But I found drone misleading here - I thought they'd be airborne. What's the scope of "drone"?
  - Jedd 9y ago
    More importantly, worker bees aren't called drones. Drones are males - they don't actually do any work, living exclusively to have sex with a queen in spring. Once mating season is over, they are evicted from the hive to die - they are unable to fend for themselves. I believe it'd be rare to find drones as part of a swarm of bees in the normal case of a swarm. Worker bees are females. I've never heard them called anything other than a worker bee.
  - friendzis 9y ago
    First, I do not think we have textbook definition of "drone" as such words change meaning based on what technologies are actually available, but quite a lot of technical terms come from or are inspired by science fiction. While I did not read lots of science fiction and most of that was not in English, I think "drone" for a long time used to mean something like "mobile robot capable of autonomously performing a series of tasks", mostly in contexts of mining, cargo transportation and reconnaissance. Airborne association with drones is quite a recent thing with rise of "military drones" (mostly recon) and subsequently manufacturers of RC multirotors using a word distancing their products from RC toys. RC multirotors are drones only in the sense that they maintain altitude and orientation autonomously.
- triangleman 9y ago
  They are robots and won't be traveling in one group.
mojomark 9y ago
A swarm is a swarm - for any biomimetic aggregation. (1) Sure, you may have a specific term for a sepecific type of swarm, but swarm is an umbrella term that covers all aggregations. Working in this field, I can say that applying common terminology is not as superficial an act as it may seem. There are similarities in the rulesets governing the dynamics of animal collectives irrespective of the working environment, so usong common terms accross disciplines of study helps avoid confusion and also helps identify points of leverage. For example, engineers building biomimetic swarms of seagliders may benefit from studying V-formations of geese, even though you don't often see sealife swimming in a V-formation. A swarm requires more than one entity whose behavior is directly affected by the behavior of another entity. One of the most fascinating interdisciplinary aspects of swarms, IMO, is the fact that all swarms can be described by Radial Distribution Functions (2), which is also how states of matter can be characterized - in terms of density and lattice structure (and even polarity in extended versions). More amazingly is that, similar to the way matter in different states yields different physical behavior (e.g. between gas, liquid, solid), it's looking more and more like swarms do the same. They may even have predictable state transition points. 1.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_behaviour (See bilogical swarming) 2.) The use of radial distribution and pair‐correlation functions to analyze and describe biological aggregations: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.4319/lom.2006.4.382/pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiFnqqL27vYAhUI6yYKHQK0An0QFghOMAo&usg=AOvVaw3HwVp92i8sa-DegIetM-W4 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...