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Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days

You're reading from   Intelligent IoT Projects in 7 Days Build exciting projects using smart devices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286429
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. A Simple Smart Gardening System 2. A Smart Parking System FREE CHAPTER 3. Making Your Own Vending Machine 4. A Smart Digital Advertising Dashboard 5. A Smart Speaker Machine 6. Autonomous Firefighter Robot 7. Multi-Robot Cooperation Using Swarm Intelligence 8. Essential Hardware Components

Learning about swarm intelligence

Swarm intelligence is inspired by the collective behavior of social animal colonies such as ants, birds, wasps, and honey bees. These animals work together to achieve a common goal.

Swarm intelligence phenomena can be found in our environment. You can see swarm intelligence in deep-sea animals, shown in the following image of a school of fish in formation that was captured by a photographer in Cabo Pulmo:

Using information from swarm intelligence studies, swarm intelligence is applied to coordinate among autonomous robots. Each robot can be described as a self-organization system. Each one negotiates with the others on how to achieve the goal.

There are various algorithms to implement swarm intelligence. I recommend you read textbooks about it. Some math and statistics are applied for implementing...

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