A Programming Language For Self-Organizing Swarms of Drones

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:01AM from the just-don't-teach-them-to-shoot dept.

New submitter jumpjoe writes: Drones are becoming a staple of everyday news. Drone swarms are the natural extension of the drone concept for applications such as search and rescue, mapping, and agricultural and industrial monitoring. A new programming language, compiler, and virtual machine were recently introduced to specify the behaviour of an entire swarm with a single program. This programming language, called Buzz, allows for self-organizing behaviour to accomplish complex tasks with simple program. Details on the language and examples are available here. Full disclosure: I am one of the authors of the paper.

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I know ! I know, by Archangel+Michael · 2015-07-23 03:22 · Score: 4, Funny

We should create a whole OS that controls Drone Swarms ....
We'll call it ...
BeeOS!

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1. Re:I know ! I know, by halivar · 2015-07-23 03:42 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  It would be pretty hard to debug, would it not?