Background Information:

Defense-Related:

• For the paper "Effectiveness Analysis for Wide Area Search Munitions" by LtCol David Jacques (AFIT/ENY) and Robert Leblanc, click here.
• For a .pdf file of the RAND report "Proliferated Autonomous Weapons: An Example of Cooperative Behavior" by D. Frelinger, J. Kvitky, and W. Stanley, click here.
• For a survey chapter on weapon target assignment, click here (from Murphey Robert A Civ AFRL/MNGN).
• For a description of a stochastic dynamic allocation model and algorithm, click here (from Murphey Robert A Civ AFRL/MNGN).
• For ARPA's real-time planning and control program see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu//project/theo-5/www/rtpc-home.html

Cooperative and Swarm Robotics:

• For a literature overview of cooperative robotics and robo-soccer by Yanli Yang and Marios Polycarpou from UC, click here.
• NRaD robotics: http://www.nosc.mil/robots/
• For , the latest issue of "Robotics and Autonomous Systems" which has information on swarming/recruiting behaviors see http://www.elsevier.com:80/inca/publications/store/5/0/5/6/2/2/ (suggested by Clough Bruce T Civ AFRL/VACC).
• Carnegie-Mellon Robotics Research Inst.: http://www.ri.cmu.edu/
• CWRU autonomous agents group: http://vorlon.cwru.edu/~beer/group.html
• For some work in robotics at GaTech see http://www.cc.gatech.edu/aimosaic/robot-lab/MRLHome.html
• For some papers in cooperative robotics see http://avalon.epm.ornl.gov/~parkerle/sub_coop/cr_publ.html
• Lego: http://www.legomindstorms.com/

Biology and Swarms:

• For a (draft) literature overview of swarms by Yang Liu and Kevin Passino from OSU, click here.
• Swarm Intelligence book: http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/publications/Bookinforev/icnew.html
• "Boids" and a distributed behavioral model: http://www.red.com/cwr/boids.html
• Swarm development group: http://www.swarm.org/index.html