Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics

The book "Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics" offers a comprehensive analysis of the essential elements required for the design, construction, and control of effective artificial swarms composed of multiple mobile physical agents. It addresses the fundamentals of these elements in the context of dynamic swarm intelligence and highlights the profound connections between them. Through an interdisciplinary approach that includes biomimetic inspirations from ethology and ecology, the study of social information flow, and the analysis of temporal and adaptive signaling networks, a new understanding of collective behavior is established. The book places particular emphasis on the less discussed aspects of distributed information flow among agents and aims to establish general design principles for swarm behavior. This perspective opens up new possibilities for scientific engagement with dynamic collective behaviors.