Intelligent Systems Lab Presentation – Cockroach Swarm Optimisation (by Ali Farid)

(2/2/2016)

We are starting up a more active communication platform for the members of Intelligent Systems Lab. Thus a biweekly presentation of our findings or other relevant works will be presented by the members at a one-hour session.

Cockroach Swarm Optimisation (CSO) is the first in the series of our Intelligent Systems Lab's presentation. CSO emulates the cockroach behaviour in locating dark places for hiding and looking for other cockroaches as a form of social activity.

Ali, the presenter of this seminar pointed out the relevant of this optimisation algorithm to his project in using drones (UAVs) as a swarm. He is thinking of using the CSO in his swarm of drone for locating of target in unknown environment. Quite an interesting sharing session from the presenter, at least, the CSO as compared to other swarm optimisation algorithms is quite a distinctive approach. Nature has given us a lot more of inspiration, it is just a matter of whether we are able to learn from the nature and creatively put ideas into practical solutions.