Assignment 1 - Bibliography and Annotation

Below is a list of five papers related to Swarm Intelligence, with annotations.

Update:
I was having problems with the embedded document causing the blog to auto scroll to it, so I've removed the embedded document from this post. You can find the document here.

Project Ideas

As the weeks go by, the pressure to find a project topic is building. I haven't found a specific project idea that I'm interested in yet, but I have some general ideas about what I'd like to do.

Generally, I want to do a project in the field of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.

Computer Vision / Image processing might be an interesting topic to look in to, and I've found some interesting papers involving: solving jigsaw puzzles or detecting pedestrians. Some of these papers are really cool, not only in the computation and math behind them, but also in the problems they are solving. It is really interesting when the problem that is being solved is something that a human can relate to - such as solving a jigsaw puzzle.

One of my initial ideas for something that I found interesting (but haven't been able to turn in to a project yet) was the idea of having multiple independent robots which work together to achieve a certain goal, sometimes referred to as Swarm Robotics. For example: this or this. I don't have the background, knowledge, or time to actually implement something like this in hardware, but I could possibly simulate it or do a project specifically related to Swarm Intelligence.

New Blog

The blog has been created! I will use this blog to note and comment on anything related to my senior seminar project at Willamette University.

There isn't much to see yet, but hopefully there will be soon.