SWARM 2019: THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SWARM BEHAVIOR AND BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTICS
PROGRAM

Days: Wednesday, November 20th Thursday, November 21st Friday, November 22nd

Wednesday, November 20th

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13:00-13:45 Session 1A: Optimization 1

WeP1a

Location: Room A
13:00
Toward Tracking to Serial Movement for Two Swarm Intelligence Algorithms in Dynamic Environments (abstract)
13:15
Evolving Behaviour Trees for Supervisory Control of Robot Swarms (abstract)
13:30
Generating Collective Foraging Behavior For Robotic Swarm using Deep Reinforcement Learning (abstract)
13:00-14:00 Session 1B: Macro-biosystems 1

WeP1b

Location: Room B
13:00
Division of Labor at the Group Level in Ant Societies (abstract)
13:15
The Collective Burden of Choice in Group-living Organisms (abstract)
13:30
Collective Decision-making in Cockroaches and Potential Regulation Mechanisms of Behaviour within Groups (abstract)
13:45
Crab-like Robots Could be Regarded as Swarm-mates by Soldier Crabs (abstract)
14:15-15:15 Session 2A: Optimization 2

WeP2a

Location: Room A
14:15
Towards Adaptation to Environmental Change without Network Revision in Urban Transit Network Design Problem (abstract)
14:30
Tamper-Resistant Controller Using Neural Network for Time-varying Quantized Control (abstract)
14:45
Global Path for Covering Tasks Performed by Swarming Chloroplastic Robots (abstract)
15:00
Statistical Analysis on Activity Time Series of Ants, Camponotus japonicus (abstract)
14:15-15:15 Session 2B: Macro-biosystems 2

WeP2b

Location: Room B
14:15
Ant Microbial Endosymbionts and the Emergent Properties of Social Groups (abstract)
14:30
Autonomous Transition between Self-Avoiding Walk and Self-Attracting Walk in the Artificial Ant Model (abstract)
14:45
State Transition of Raiding Patterns based on Food Location by An Army Ant Model (abstract)
15:00
An Autonomous Role Assignment by Response Threshold Model Based on Contact Stimulus with Foraging Ants (abstract)
14:15-15:15 Session 2C: UAV

WeP2c

Location: Room C
14:15
Gesture-Based Interface for Multi-Agent and Swarm Formation Control (abstract)
14:30
A Study of Robotic Swarms and Emergent Behaviors using 25+ Real-World Lighter-Than-Air Autonomous Agents (LTA3) (abstract)
14:45
UAV Swarm with Mesh Radios: Development Update (abstract)
15:00
Disaster Response Simulation by Drones Using Group Decision Making Model BRT (abstract)
15:30-16:30 Session 3A: Optimization 3

WeP3a

Location: Room A
15:30
Hearing the Shape of a Chemical Reactor with a Deep Network of Swarms (abstract)
15:45
Distributed Possibilistic Learning in Multi-Agent Systems (abstract)
16:00
One-shot Path Planning for Multi-agent Systems Using Fully Convolutional Neural Network (abstract)
16:15
Distributed Size Estimation in Swarms by Network Reduction (abstract)
15:30-16:30 Session 3B: Collective dynamics 1

WeP3b

Location: Room B
15:30
Visualization of Dynamic Structure in Flocking Behavior (abstract)
15:45
Heap Paradox in Fish Schools (abstract)
16:00
Schooling of Silvery Fish – the Impact of Light Reflections (abstract)
16:15
Numerical Simulation Based on 3D Behavior Model for Fish Schooling (abstract)
15:30-16:30 Session 3C: Formation

WeP3c

Location: Room C
15:30
Formation of Planar Structures with Rollable and Jumpable Cubic Modular Robots (abstract)
15:45
Formation Control for Multiple Quadrotors Based on Optimal Regulation of Individual and Cooperative Performance Outputs (abstract)
16:00
Event-triggered Formation Control of a Multi-agent System (abstract)
16:15
Quantitative Evaluation for the Quality of the Military Parade (abstract)
17:00-17:45 Session 4: Keynote Speech 1

WeP4a

Location: Room A
17:00
The Ecology of Collective Behavior (abstract)
Thursday, November 21st

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09:00-10:30 Session 5: Keynote Speech 2

TuA1a

Location: Room A
09:00
Perspectives on Robotic Coordination and Bioinspiration (abstract)
09:45
Life as Collective Emergent Phenomena (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 6A: Macro-biosystems 3

TuA2a

Location: Room A
10:45
Pursuit Tactics of Predatory Bats: Predictive Shooting of Echolocation Sonar Beam and Appropriate Combination of Two Types of Flight Maneuvers (abstract)
11:00
Collective Departure in Feral Horses: Combining Wild Animals with Drone (abstract)
11:15
Population-level Coordination under Perceptual Constraints: the Impact of Neighbors within Auditory Range on Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) Hroup Movements (abstract)
11:30
Flashing Activity of Group of Firefly Luciola parvula in Fields: Camera-based Quantitative Measurement and Temporal Variation (abstract)
11:45
A Network Model of the Emergence of Stateless Complex Society in Southern Peru (abstract)
12:00
Modeling and Application of Frog Choruses as an Autonomous Distributed Communication System over Multiple Time Scales (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 6B: Collective dynamics 2

TuA2b

Location: Room B
10:45
Two Extentions of Heterogenous Boid Model (abstract)
11:00
Minimized BOID: Aggregation, Reunion, and Following without Spatial Information (abstract)
11:15
Detecting Information Cascading as Bursting Behavior in Honeybee Hives (abstract)
11:30
Lifetime Tracking of Bees Reveals Individual-level Variability in Nest Use with Age (abstract)
11:45
Behavioral Variance and Collective Motion (abstract)
12:00
Towards Collective Artificial General Intelligence: Learning from Constricted Communication Bottlenecks (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 6C: Mobile robot

TuA2c

Location: Room C
10:45
Ladder Climbing Robot Inspired by Octopus’s Behavior (abstract)
11:00
Simple Multi-legged Model Reveals that Retrograde-wave Gait Rather Attenuates Body Oscillation than Direct-wave Gait (abstract)
11:15
Self-organized Shape-optimizing Strategy for Single-legged Modular Robots to Traverse Unknown Gap Environment (abstract)
11:30
Control of a Passive Joint in a Snake Robot Using Rolling Motion (abstract)
11:45
Insect-Inspired Visual Navigation On-Board Autonomous Robots (abstract)
12:00
Development of Jumping Leg Mechanism of Bird Type Flying Robot and Jumping Experiment by Automatic Contraction and Release Using External Device (abstract)
13:00-15:00 Session 7: Poster

TuP1c

Location: Poster
13:00
P01: Simplified Manufacture Technique for Artificial Muscle (abstract)
13:00
P02: Realization of Flapping Motion of a Flapping Robot Based on Muscle Structure of Birds (abstract)
13:00
P03: Self-organized Diverse Forms and Migration Modes in Isolated Epithelial Cells (abstract)
13:00
P04: Neural Synchrony as a Social Coupling Mechanism (abstract)
13:00
P05: Multilevel Structure in Feral Horse Society: Evidence from Aerial Observation Using Drones (abstract)
13:00
P06: A report for the Ontogeny of Schooling Behavior in Homo- and Heterogeneous Tadpole Groups (abstract)
13:00
P07: A Machine-Learning Based Real-Time Analysis to Quantify the Effects of Gut Microbes in Social Insect Collective Behavior (abstract)
13:00
P09: Bipartite Network Analysis Reveals Task Allocation in Social Insects (abstract)
13:00
P10: Termites in Maze: Emergence of the Correct Route through Excitatory Transmission among Individuals (abstract)
13:00
P11: Behavior of Solitary Ant During Obstacle Navigation Depending on Methods for Food Transportation (abstract)
13:00
P12: Evaluation of Phototaxis of Pillbugs (Armadillidium vulgare) to Light Stimulus Intensity (abstract)
13:00
P13: Self-optimization in Biologically-inspired Topologies: Two Cases for the C. elegans Connectome (abstract)
13:00
P14: Self-organising Agent-Based Model to Study Stream-breaking Phenomenon During Aggregation Phase of Dictyostelium discoideum (abstract)
13:00
P15: H3BMO, A new Honey Bee HyperHeuristic based on the Mating Process (abstract)
13:00
P16: Mathematical Model for Flight of Bats in a Bounded Space (abstract)
13:00
P17: An Agent-based Model for the Community of Vampire Bats that Survive by Sharing Food (abstract)
13:00
P18: Quantitative Estimation of the Intensity of Intra- and Interspecific Competition by Population Growth Data in an Ant (abstract)
13:00
P19: Social and Genetic Structure of Monomorium triviale, a Clonal but Caste Dimorphic Ant (abstract)
13:00
P20: Regulatory Mechanism Predates the Evolution of Self-organizing Capacity in Simulated Ant-like Robots (abstract)
13:00
P21: Lévy Walks Emerge near a Critical Point (abstract)
13:00
P22: The Blind Swarm System with Minimized Boid An Implementation of a Swarm System Only Requires a Single Signal (abstract)
13:00
P23: Being Dumbledore’s Army (abstract)
13:00
P24: Guiding a Flock of Robots via a Locally Informed Teleoperated Robot (abstract)
13:00
P25: Analysis of Sheepdog-type Navigation for Minimal Sheep Model (abstract)
13:00
P26: Demonstration of Swarm Alignment Behavior by Distributed Acoustic Robots (abstract)
13:00
P27: Decentralized Control for Self-driving Cars Capable of Moving Fast, Smoothly, and Safely on Two-dimensional Plane (abstract)
13:00
P28: Motion Design of a Snake Robot to Pass through a Door (abstract)
13:00
P29: Adaptive Control of Flexible Marine Risers with Varying Length (abstract)
13:00
P30: Aquabot – A Modular Autonomous Underwater Robotics Platform (abstract)
13:00
P31: Towards a Novel Force-Stroke Characterization Method for Hydrogels in Energy-Autonomous Actuation in Distributed Sensing Networks (abstract)
13:00
P32: Feasibility Study of Cooperative Task Concept through Energy Gathering using Teslasheet Wireless Power Supply (abstract)
15:15-16:15 Session 8A: Swarm systems 1

TuP2a

Location: Room A
15:15
Swarm Robots Using Levy Flight in Targets Exploration -Computer Simulation for Performance of Levy Flight with Fixed and Updated Minimum Movement- (abstract)
15:30
Automated Construction of Metric Maps using a Stochastic Robotic Swarm Leveraging Received Signal Strength (abstract)
15:45
Adaptive Foraging Behavior of Swarm robots based on Simple Cooperation Mechanism (abstract)
16:00
Simulation for Cooperative Transportation of a Circular Object by Multi-Robot (abstract)
15:15-16:15 Session 8B: OS: Engineering insect morphology by natural selection 1

TuP2b

Location: Room B
15:15
Thorax Strength and Skeleton Reduction in Ant Workers (abstract)
15:30
Miniaturisation and Strength in Worker Ants: 3D Integration of Muscles and Skeleton in a Tiny Box (abstract)
15:45
Automated Tissue Segmentation of Micro-CT Images by Deep Learning and its Application to Comparative Morphology (abstract)
16:00
Neurobiology and Biomechanics of Ultra Fast Movement in the Trap-jaw Ant (abstract)
15:15-16:15 Session 8C: OS: Advanced locomotive functions and control techniques for bio-inspired robots 1

TuP2c

Location: Room C
15:15
Indirectly Controlled Combined Rimless Wheel That Consists of Eight- and Ten-legged Wheels via Entrainment Effect (abstract)
15:30
Stable Gait Generation of Impaired Biped Robot with One-side Actuation and Reaction Wheel on Other Side (abstract)
15:45
Conveyor Manipulation System Using High-speed Crawling-like Locomotion Robot (abstract)
16:00
A Novel Worm-like Locomotion Robot Slides on Slippery Ground with Asymmetric Inner Oscillation (abstract)
16:30-17:30 Session 9A: Swarm systems 2

TuP3a

Location: Room A
16:30
Constrained Optimization by Improved Particle Swarm Optimization with the Equivalent Penalty Coefficient Method (abstract)
16:45
Keep Calm and Vote on: Swarm Resiliency in Collective Decision Making (abstract)
17:00
Rethinking Natural Swarm Intelligence from the Crowded Selfish Herd Scenario (abstract)
17:15
Framework for Present Scalability in Swarm Robotic Systems and New Implementations to Increase Efficiency (abstract)
16:30-17:30 Session 9B: OS: Engineering insect morphology by natural selection 2

TuP3b

Location: Room B
16:30
Are Brains of Social Insects Special? (abstract)
16:45
Oral Fluid Exchange and the Power of the Social Circulatory System (abstract)
17:00
Division of Labor in Experimental Social Groups with Controlled Variation in Genetic, Demographic, and Morphological Composition (abstract)
17:15
Accessing nature’s genius: How can biologists organize biological knowledge to support inspired human innovation? (abstract)
16:30-17:15 Session 9C: OS: Advanced locomotive functions and control techniques for bio-inspired robots 2

TuP3c

Location: Room C
16:30
High-speed Crawling-like Locomotion Robot Using Wobbling Mass and Reaction Wheel (abstract)
16:45
A Novel Vibrating Conveyor System Based on Principle of Limit Cycle Walking (abstract)
17:00
Generation of Strict Stealth Walking Gait for 3-link Underactuated Biped Robot (abstract)
Friday, November 22nd

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09:00-10:30 Session 10: Keynote Speech 3

FrA1a

Location: Room A
09:00
Current Swarm Robotics Research at IRIDIA: Mergeable Nervous Systems and Blockchain Based Smart Contracts for Robot Swarms (abstract)
09:45
Computational and Robotic Modeling of Social Interactions in Schooling Fish (abstract)
10:45-12:30 Session 11A: OS: Swarm math

FrA2a

Location: Room A
10:45
Mathematical Modeling of Self-propelled Particles for Understanding Collective Motions (abstract)
11:00
Separation of Pedestrian Counter Flows with an Array of Obstacles (abstract)
11:15
Feedback Control to Analyze the Coarse Behavior of Agent-Based Simulations and Experiments (abstract)
11:30
Optimization with Chases and Escapes (abstract)
11:45
Decentralized Topology Optimization Implemented as a Self-Organization of Multi-Agent Systems (abstract)
12:00
A Positive Role of Heterogeneity of the Agents in a Model of Group Chase and Escape (abstract)
12:15
Discontinuous Phase Transition in Chemotactic Aggregation with Density-dependent Pressure (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 11B: Micro-biosystems

FrA2b

Location: Room B
10:45
Effects of Robot Collisions on Collective Behavior in Evolutionary Robotic Swarms (abstract)
11:00
Using MAP-Elites to Optimize Self-Assembling Behaviors in a Swarm of Bio-micro-robots (abstract)
11:15
Bio-inspired Liquid Robots Mimicking the Cell Behaviour (abstract)
11:30
Interactive, Programmable Control of Collective Cell Migration in Living Tissues (abstract)
11:45
Influence of Dynamic-heterogeneity on Collective Cell Migration during Wound Healing (abstract)