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We apply an adapted version of Particle Swarm Optimization to distributed unsupervised robotic learning in groups of robots with only local information. The performance of the learning technique for a simple task is compared across robot groups of various ...
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This paper addresses qualitative and quantitative diversity and specialization issues in the frame- work of self-organizing, distributed, artificial systems. Both diversity and specialization are obtained via distributed learning from initially homogeneous ...
