Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE190101513

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE190101513

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Ant-inspired rules for self-assembly in swarm robotics and complex systems. This project aims to investigate how ants use self-assembly to build bridges and chains, joining their bodies using simple rules at the individual-level to build complex structures at the group-level. The long-standing conceptual gap between these two organisational levels will be addressed using innovative animal behaviour experiments, computer modelling and embodied testing of theory in a robot swarm. The expected outcomes of the project include new models for understanding self-assembly in complex systems and new control algorithms for robot swarms. The project should provide significant benefits such as programming to allow robot swarms to autonomously self-assemble useful structures that enhance their operational capabilities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2019

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $390,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Animal Behaviour |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Zoology

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