We work to mechanistically understand herding-type situations, where one or more agents are tasked with collecting and/or transporting another set of agents.
Recent Journal article
AJ King, S Portugal, D Strömbom et al. 2023. Biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2023;00:1-9. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.14049
Key background articles
D Strömbom and AJ King. 2018. Robot collection and transport of objects: a biomimetic process. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 5, 48. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2018.00048/full
D Strömbom et al. 2014. Solving the shepherding problem: Heuristics for herding autonomous interacting agents. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11(100). https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2014.0719
Miscellaneous
D Strömbom & AJ King. Why we programmed a robot to act like a sheepdog. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/why-we-programmed-a-robot-to-act-like-a-sheepdog-96961
MEDIA COVERAGE (Selected)
Animal behavior: herding instincts. Financial Times. 9/24/2014. https://www.ft.com/content/89c89bd2-41ea-11e4-b98f-00144feabdc0
Sheepdogs use just use two simple rules to round up large herds of sheep. PHYS.ORG. 8/26/2014 https://phys.org/news/2014-08-sheepdogs-simple-large-herds-sheep.html
‘Two simple rules’ explain sheepdog behaviour. 8/27/2014. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28936251
