swarm
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- noun
- /swɔrm/
- Specialized
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- As engineers, when we build swarms, we have a mission.
- swarm of robotic devices
- swarm of autonomous agents
- swarm of robots
As engineers, when we build swarms, we have a mission.
- As engineers, when we build swarms, we have a mission.
- And then maybe swarms of drones, say, between US and China over Taiwan.
- If we want to address military context with the swarm robots this becomes more debatable.
- And the swarm is communicating with itself so that when objects, large objects are coming through, the swarm can adjust and move out of the way.
- You have to bring it up with the with, with these swarm bots crawling on the surface of your cocoon in space.
Examples
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Emergent behavior of the swarm, including its new configurations, results from the individual actions of the robots.
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NASA is also looking into the option that instead of using one large machine, one could use instead of swarm of small robots that coordinate their tasks.
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Instead, here we have a swarm of individuals, each of whom can follow basic instructions.
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The swarm can survey and quickly build a detailed floor plan map of an entire structure.
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The full potential of the swarm concept, with perhaps thousands of robots, is yet to be realized.
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The design enables individual robots and the entire swarm to change in response to issues that emerge at the macroscopic scale.
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We're tracking a small swarm of alien craft headed towards Springview, Oregon.
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Some initiatives are directed towards novel applications of swarm robotics and cooperation between humans and the swarms.
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In addition to wide coverage, the swarm improves fault tolerance, enables expandability, and allows for parallelization of simple tasks.
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Researchers designed a swarm of drones that could communicate to carry out complex tasks efficiently.
Compounds
A large group of very small, almost invisible biting insects that cause itchy bites
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Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the technical use of swarm is to think of bees or birds working together without one leader, an image taken from the old root that means 'move together'. So a swarm of drones or sensors is many small units that work together to do a job.