Swarm applications: a potential future application for evolvable hardware

This paper looks at the applicability of using evolvable hardware principles to develop control strategies for swarm applications. It discusses the expected hardware capabilities for each agent in the swarm, the advantages of using evolvable algorithms to program the swarm, and some of the evolvable approaches being investigated by researchers. The paper concludes with a list of constraints that swarm applications place on the evolutionary algorithms and then analyzes which evolutionary algorithms are appropriate to derive controllers for swarms.