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Part of the book series: Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization ((ALO,volume 17))

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In recent years, several advances have been seen in autonomous systems to mimic different behaviors that emerge from the interactions of a large group of simple individuals with each other and with the environment, termed swarm behavior is assigned to the identical behavior of a large population of a specie that as a whole show complex pattern, flexibility and robustness.

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    Simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis.

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Qadir, R.H. (2015). Introduction. In: Self-Sufficiency of an Autonomous Reconfigurable Modular Robotic Organism. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization, vol 17. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10289-4_1

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