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Ant-Inspired, Invisible-Hand-Controlled Robotic System to Support Rescue Works After Earthquake

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Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017)

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Abstract

A bridge/scaffolding system, based on ants-like robots is proposed. Collective Intelligence of the system is derived from Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand phenomena (ASIH). Such a bridge system will be air/truck delivered to a particular earthquake location. Next, the bridge-robots, initialized by trained supervisors, will collectively assemble a bridge by means of transporting a chain or scaffolding structure similar to that of bridges made by ants joining their bodies together. Additionally, bridge-robots, task-controlled by supervisors, should also provide the functions of light crane or conveyor belt systems to manipulate heavy debris. Different rescue scenarios have been presented with the help of 3D graphics.

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    Just before his death in 1946, Keynes said: “I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.”.

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    Proposed in 1972 by Allen Newell and Herbert Simon (Nobel Prize in Economics) and published in the book entitled “Human Problem Solving”. The description of Means-Ends Analysis (MEA) is available in all AI textbooks.

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    Alternatively, acoustic signals can be used.

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    Degrees of freedom.

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    Tadeusz Szuba

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  1. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Management , Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George A. Papadopoulos

  3. Department of Information Systems, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland

    Piotr Jędrzejowicz

  4. Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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  5. Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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Szuba, T. (2017). Ant-Inspired, Invisible-Hand-Controlled Robotic System to Support Rescue Works After Earthquake. In: Nguyen, N., Papadopoulos, G., Jędrzejowicz, P., Trawiński, B., Vossen, G. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10448. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67074-4_49

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