Cells and Robots: Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent PopulationsCells and Robots is an outcome of the multidisciplinary research extending over Biology, Robotics and Hybrid Systems Theory. It is inspired by modeling reactive behavior of the immune system cell population, where each cell is considered as an independent agent. In our modeling approach, there is no difference if the cells are naturally or artificially created agents, such as robots. This appears even more evident when we introduce a case study concerning a large-size robotic population scenario. Under this scenario, we also formulate the optimal control of maximizing the probability of robotic presence in a given region and discuss the application of the Minimum Principle for partial differential equations to this problem. Simultaneous consideration of cell and robotic populations is of mutual benefit for Biology and Robotics, as well as for the general understanding of multi-agent system dynamics. The text of this monograph is based on the PhD thesis of the first author. The work was a runner-up for the fifth edition of the Georges Giralt Award for the best European PhD thesis in Robotics, annually awarded by the European Robotics Research Network (EURON). |
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... surface receptors. We also provide one solution to the problem of controlling large-size robotic populations. Although we see the true value of the book only in its wholeness, a reader who is more concerned with biological applications ...
... Surface T-Cell Receptor Dynamics in a Mixture of Interacting Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.2 T-Cell Receptor Triggering Experimental Setup ...
... surface. Fig. 1.1. Mobile robot endowed with ultrasonic sensors and an omnidirectional vision system. a) The robot b) Birds-eye view inside of the robot. (Institute for Systems and Robotics, Lisbon). Figure 1.1 shows the robot equipped ...
... surface (see Figure 1.2). Different type of receptors are sensitive to different kinds of bio-chemical environmental substances. Here, we speak only about the receptors with ability to sense chemokines. The chemokine is a substance that ...
... surface, pieces of pathogen protein, so-called antigen, signaling the presence of pathogen, for example of virus or bacteria. The contact of APCs and their interaction with T-cells is of vital importance for the start of the immune ...
Contents
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Immune System and TCell Receptor Dynamics of | 9 |
MicroAgent and Stochastic MicroAgent Models | 15 |
MicroAgent Population Dynamics | 25 |
Stochastic MicroAgent Model of the TCell Receptor | 35 |
Other editions - View all
Cells and Robots: Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations Dejan Lj. Milutinovic,Pedro U. Lima No preview available - 2007 |
Cells and Robots: Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations Dejan Lj. Milutinovic,Pedro U. Lima No preview available - 2009 |
Cells and Robots: Modeling and Control of Large-Size Agent Populations Dejan Lj. Milutinovic,Pedro U. Lima No preview available - 2010 |