{"id":3640,"date":"2024-06-27T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T09:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:12:03","slug":"an-investigation-into-the-design-of-bee-inspired-swarm-intelligence-ontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/an-investigation-into-the-design-of-bee-inspired-swarm-intelligence-ontology\/","title":{"rendered":"An Investigation into the Design of Bee-inspired Swarm Intelligence Ontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Mukhethwa Mulangaphuma, Sol Plaatje University<br \/><strong>Supervisor:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr Colin Chibaya, Sol Plaatje University<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Mukhethwa Mulangaphuma - An Investigation into the Design of Bee-inspired Swarm Intelligence....\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFUGjxeJ71g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Swarm robotics is an AI field focused on applying swarm intelligence paradigms and methodologies to groups of homogeneous robots to perform difficult tasks that individuals cannot.&nbsp; Social insects and other living creatures inspire swarm robotics. This research is aimed at creating a language for designing swarms of bee agents to perform preferred emergent behavior.&nbsp; First, we investigate the primitive behaviors that define bee agents\u2019 discrete actions at the individual level. Eighteen of these primitive behaviors have been identified as potential building blocks for the bee agent language. The identified primitive behaviors are then translated into computational terms. The identified primitive behaviors are then combined to form an ontology (a set of primitive behaviors and meta data describing how and when primitive behaviors are utilized).&nbsp; Permutations of a collection of primitive actions specify the search space for the best performer set of rules for specific assignments.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1233\" height=\"951\" src=\"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mukhethwa-Mulangaphuma.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mukhethwa-Mulangaphuma.png 1233w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mukhethwa-Mulangaphuma-600x463.png 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mukhethwa-Mulangaphuma-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mukhethwa-Mulangaphuma-1024x790.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Mukhethwa-Mulangaphuma-768x592.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1233px) 100vw, 1233px\" \/><\/figure><p><br \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher:\u00a0\u00a0Mukhethwa Mulangaphuma, Sol Plaatje UniversitySupervisor:\u00a0Dr Colin Chibaya, Sol Plaatje University Swarm robotics is an AI field focused on applying swarm intelligence paradigms and methodologies to groups of homogeneous robots to perform difficult tasks that individuals cannot.&nbsp; Social insects and other living creatures inspire swarm robotics. 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