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Did you know that natural swarm dynamics completely baffled us up until a few years ago: How do birds communicate well enough to stay on a group? How do they kn
by joshspankit 4y ago
Did you know that natural swarm dynamics completely baffled us up until a few years ago: How do birds communicate well enough to stay on a group? How do they know which direcion to go? How does it look like a singular consciousness is undulating through hundreds or thousands of individuals? We marvelled and were dumbfounded.
But we had made it so much more complicated because we couldn’t see the few simple rules that each of them were following.
Honestly, I think robot swarms will be simpler than large singles.
- TeMPOraL 4y ago> But we had made it so much more complicated because we couldn’t see the few simple rules that each of them were following. I hope you don't mean "Boids" and the three-four simple rules, because that's just an approximation of a swarm behavior made for artistic purposes - i.e. the result is supposed to pass as a flock of birds or a school of fish to casual onlookers (e.g. gamers, audience of a movie), and not to be accurate to the real thing.
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- ablob 4y agoEven if it were "Boids", I don't think it worsens the argument by a lot. The essence of the statement is that complex behavior can emerge from a simple ruleset. I'd like to add, that while individual behavior is difficult to predict, a general motion prediction can be much easier. (Think shepherds, for example)
- ilyt 4y agoAll the complexity in farming is in getting the view on the small fraction of the area and applying treatment (water, fertilizer, removing weeds etc) into that area. The "swarm" is meaningless there. Each node need to have minimum amount of sensing and computation to handle that job. It's also at worst "a sloped square" so there is no "swarm mechanic" to move around, just zigzag around the field.