Waterloo Robot Learning Reading Group - Swarm Robotics / MARL (Week 4)
Meetup to discuss state-of-the-art research on Swarm robotics, similar to the Toronto ML/Systems Reading Group and Vector Institute's Machine Learning Lunches- list of topics & articles below - all are welcome! 🎉
Pizza sponsored by GRAM!
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVS-7VJMA5c&t=604s&ab_channel=MoreStevenGong
Topic - Robot Foundation Models
6:00pm - LLM2 SWARM, 2024, LLM2Swarm: Robot Swarms that Responsively Reason, Plan, and Collaborate through LLMs by Olivier Szczepaniak
6:20pm - Frontiers in SWARM, 2025, Swarm Robotic Behaviors and Current Applications by Olivier
6:40pm - An Invitation, HeRo 2.0: A Low-Cost Robot for Swarm Robotics Research
7:00pm - Open floor discussion on future directions
7:15pm - Wrap up and social
Additional Reading List
Swarm Intelligence From Natural to Artificial Intelligence By the Santa Fe Institute
From Pheromones to Policies: Reinforcement Learning for Engineered Biological Swarms
Questions we should answer as we read these papers:
What are the authors trying to do? Articulate their objectives.
How was it done prior to their work, and what were the limits of current practice?
What is new in their approach, and why do they think it will be successful?
What are the mid-term and final “exams” to check for success? (i.e., How is the method evaluated?)
What are limitations that the author mentions (any that they omit)?