Mini-robots, motherships, swarm strategies, wasps, ants, organization and delivery

Robots are for everyone. Tech TV now features Battle Bots, which is a huge hit with viewers and draws crowds as large as WFB Wrestling. Many of these people get very involved in the robot scene and even occasionally try to impress the military. Take a look at some of these super heavyweight battle robots, all configuration types available.

[http://www.battlebots.com/superheavyweights.asp]

What I find most interesting to these groups of battle robots is that they are literally practicing war at a micro level, using flanking maneuvers, military strategy, modern theories, and theories of nature and hunting. Why are these groups important? Well, on the one hand, we’ve seen them as we’ve seen those who play computer games like Mech-Warrior and others become just as smart in tactics as those who are being trained in military history strategy and tactics at West Point.

When we talk about the use of swarms in battle, we often think of animals, bees, wasps, etc. I think of UAV swarms and taking this to another level, these Battle Bots have been playing around with such ideas as well, recreating genres from sci-fi movies and using some pretty cool calculations and ideas to justify their ideas. We must consider both offensive and defensive ideas on this topic. Now we’re on the scene with our DARPA to build swarm-capable UAVs. UAV costs for military operations. AeroVironment WASP and the hobbyist; the Q-Butterfly. You may want to Google both items for more information.

Should we use the same defenses that we use on insect swarms for possible defense on UAV swarms? Well, here are some of the things we do to prevent swarms of insects: The death of Q-Fly and the use of DDT can give us an idea of ​​the level of the problem that West Nile really is, eradicating it completely is a big problem.

[http://www.sardi.sa.gov.au/pages/entomolo/…fhistry_no3.pdf]

[http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiry/citrus/finalr…t/appendixe.pdf]

We have had some success with the Mediterranean fruit fly. These are some of the ground robots created for Battle Bot RoboWars.

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There are hundreds of people who think about these things day and night, all with ideas and trying to improve the efforts of others and this competition is helping the speed of evolution of this technology.

http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/archvC2.html

If you study African fire ants working together when they attack larger prey. If you think about it, there are thousands of species, probably 20,000 species, so far we have categorized about 10,000. 20,000 species of ants and they are specialists in niches and if you weigh them, they weigh the same amount as the 6.6 billion people in the world. Using an ant concept with an exoskeleton, you have the basic idea of ​​a Mothership Robot, which carries smaller robots for important purposes. And really if you take an Evasion Ship from the Normandy Invasion and put a lot of Fighters with Kevlar and hull, isn’t that the same concept?

http://www.michaelbehar.com/wired/robots_05_02_p2.html

Fictional scientists have always been developers of such ideas, but in real life we ​​must also deal with movement and therefore we must make sure that these little robots, as well as the mothership, have the motor, the gears, the batteries, proper speed controllers. fuel, weapons systems.

http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm

We are not the only ones who work on robots, so are the Japanese and these elements are becoming very small like in Nano Size and one day they will enter and attack cancer cells. These are some of the smaller robots that are being developed:

[http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/200…mbw-3001101.php] .

Ants use a chemical communication system, which appears to be superior to human communication. Wasps and ants have the same basic genome. By detecting odors and odors and CO2, they can locate targets and emit chemicals for other ants to follow their instructions. All colonies smell the same and other colonies do not smell the same. Every human being also has a scent and this scent can be used to identify people and perhaps the little robots could use chemicals to detect problems or discover North Korea’s arsenal. Some ants in hot desert regions use the direction of the sun, because smells melt into oblivion due to the high heat of the day and perhaps a light pattern in the sky based on the spectrum of light rays, which is used as a good navigation system. The ants stop every now and then to look up at the sky and see where they have gone. They can zigzag for hours and then go straight to the nest at will at any time. This type of navigation is very valuable, which can be used by those robots, which will go from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and collect their prize of one million dollars. In Minority Report he remembers the Robot Ants, well, so do the scientists. Ants seem to be a pretty excellent species and well adapted to our various needs in the form of a mothership ground robot. We can also learn a lot from ants in their ability to fight bacteria, which neutralizes poisons in animals, insects, and plants. Which means that we could use organic robots and the current species can solve the disease problems that we are experiencing now.

For example, the West Nile virus. We know that certain caterpillars make noise vibrations that ants can pick up as a communication system. We can use that vibration to train the ants to do what we need them to do. So we don’t need to create a communication system, however using mini network sensors and mini robots we can make it as good or better than the natures version. We can use them for large or small uses, for trucks or for mini-bots. If we learn the communication system of the ants, then we do not need weapons for our enemies, because we can make the ants take care of our needs. Although they do not have a large brain, they function like a computer network. By using this type of communication systems and strategies we can prevent, create a defense and create an attack strategy on robots and AUVs.

Now the ants work on a NetCentric Warfare strategy, they work in teams and the teams are completely separated in a way controlled by central control before and after each mission. It’s a team anarchy. Let me put it this way. It works like the FED EX model and Fred Smith’s theories explained in his book; The world in time. You should read the book, especially you should go to the midnight Memphis Sort. Air Cargo often uses this method, which it created itself. Each group of ants go out and roam the area and find things and then come together to bring them back. At Fed Ex they have a mission and a goal and everyone has been trained to do the job, now they bring all the packages to the hub like ants, only now Fed Ex reverses it and uses the same methodology to deliver the packages. somewhere else. And as the offensive defense of the nest, the ants go out together and attack the predator together. Each of these groups working together but separately has their own small groups and teams, just like Fed Ex and again you will have to read the book to understand what I am talking about with Mr. Smith’s ideas on management theory.

I wonder if this is the natural order of things for all species on the planet and the best idea for those species to work together to serve and exploit niches and perform tasks. It is possible that 5 million years of evolution have learned more about management than we have in our schools. Maybe no matter how hard we try we are not being smart with our designs? Organization is the strong point of ants. Shouldn’t we pay attention? OUI well south. Especially when we create artificial life, artificial intelligence and robots and autonomous vehicles?

Just some reflections on the review of the Theory of Movement, Nature and Science and the possible future technologies of Mini-Robots, Motherships, Swarm Strategies in their relation to the future. By studying the nature and movements of such well-adapted and evolved species such as wasps, ants, and bees, and by studying their organization and distribution strategies, we will learn the efficiencies and possibilities to move to the next step.