Simon Garnier

Swarm Lab is a research lab decoding how ants, slime mold, and robots coordinate for scientists studying collective intelligence

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

Swarm Lab is live on EasyA Kickstart today
We study how ant colonies, slime mold, and robot swarms turn simple local rules into group intelligence
Fourteen years of collective-behavior research, now shipping in the open
https://t.co/Y4Cgh3gpW9

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

We got tired of collective behavior living inside equations, so we build the tools that let anyone run the models
New R packages and Shiny apps in the pipe
Heads down on swarm robotics coordination
https://t.co/Y4Cgh3gpW9

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

Most models of collective behavior stay on the whiteboard
Ours run as interactive R and Shiny apps you tune parameter by parameter and watch the prediction shift
Collective intelligence, made testable
https://t.co/bVxeUTqfeh

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

Someone asked why a brainless organism sits in an intelligence lab
Physarum slime mold solves mazes and builds transport networks as efficient as human-engineered ones, from a single giant cell
Intelligence lives in the interactions
https://t.co/bVxeUTqfeh

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

We build open-source tools so the science stays reproducible
Rvision puts OpenCV computer vision inside R
trackR runs multi-object video tracking with identities intact
viridis brings the Matplotlib palette to R
https://t.co/bVxeUTqN3P

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

A colony of ants with tiny brains coordinates traffic better than cities of humans with billions of neurons
That gap is the whole question
We study how local interactions become group intelligence, then put it to work in pedestrian flow and robot swarms
https://t.co/bVxeUTqN3P

[Simon Garnier @sjmgarnier]

Swarm intelligence in natural and artificial systems
We study how ant colonies, slime mold, and robot swarms coordinate large groups from simple local rules
Running at NJIT since 2012
https://t.co/Y4Cgh3gpW9

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