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Distributed Agreement: Swarm Guidance to Cooperative Lighting

Schultz, Kevin M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1260968137

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2009, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering.
When a honeybee swarm takes off to fly to its new home site, less than5% of the thousands of bees in the swarm have visited the site and thereby know in what direction the swarm must fly. Here, the method of guidance in honeybee swarms is investigated using both a semi-automated method, as well as a novel image processing technique to extract data from videos of swarm flight. In addition to the investigation of guidance, behaviors of individuals in the swarm are analyzed to study swarm cohesion as well as an apparent feedback process that produces group-level acceleration. Swarm flight is a real-world example of distributed agreement, wherein a few informed individuals are able to make the uninformed thousands agree on a common direction of motion. Here, we use agreement algorithms to investigate solutions for automatic control of lighting, so-called "cooperative lights." Using a micro-test bed, a number of potential challenges of cooperative lighting are revealed and investigated with statistical methods.
Kevin Passino, PhD (Advisor)
Andrea Serrani, D.Sc (Committee Member)
C. Emre Koksal, PhD (Committee Member)
Bioinformatics; Electrical Engineering
honeybee; honey bee; swarm; distributed agreement; cooperative lighting; smart lighting;

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  • Schultz, K. M. (2009). Distributed Agreement: Swarm Guidance to Cooperative Lighting [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1260968137

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schultz, Kevin. Distributed Agreement: Swarm Guidance to Cooperative Lighting. 2009. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1260968137.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schultz, Kevin. "Distributed Agreement: Swarm Guidance to Cooperative Lighting." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1260968137

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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