Cooperative Area Extension of PSO - Transfer Learning vs. Uncertainty in a Simulated Swarm Robotics

Adham Atyabi, David M. W. Powers

2013

Abstract

The study investigates the effectiveness of 2 variations of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) called Area Extended PSO (AEPSO) and Cooperative AEPSO (CAEPSO) in simulated robotic environments affected by a combinatorial noise. Knowledge Transfer, the use of the expertise and knowledge gained from previous experiments, can improve the robots decision making and reduce the number of wrong decisions in such uncertain environments. This study investigates the impact of transfer learning on robots’ performance in such hostile environment. The results highlight the feasibility of CAEPSO to be used as the controller and decision maker of a swarm of robots in the simulated uncertain environment when gained expertise from past training is transferred to the robots in the testing phase.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Atyabi A. and M. W. Powers D. (2013). Cooperative Area Extension of PSO - Transfer Learning vs. Uncertainty in a Simulated Swarm Robotics . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8565-70-9, pages 177-184. DOI: 10.5220/0004456901770184

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco13,
author={Adham Atyabi and David M. W. Powers},
title={Cooperative Area Extension of PSO - Transfer Learning vs. Uncertainty in a Simulated Swarm Robotics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2013},
pages={177-184},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004456901770184},
isbn={978-989-8565-70-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - Cooperative Area Extension of PSO - Transfer Learning vs. Uncertainty in a Simulated Swarm Robotics
SN - 978-989-8565-70-9
AU - Atyabi A.
AU - M. W. Powers D.
PY - 2013
SP - 177
EP - 184
DO - 10.5220/0004456901770184