@inbook{ec270cc05f11467fad835b7bcca618eb,
title = "From ants to robots and back: How robotics can contribute to the study of collective animal behavior",
abstract = "Swarm robotics has developed partly from biological discoveries that have been made on the organization of animal societies during the last thirty years. In this article, I review some of the ways robotics contributes in return to the study of collective animal behavior. I argue that robotics can bring significant improvements in this field, from a technical, conceptual and educational point of view. I base my discussion on five observations I have made while collaborating with computer scientists: robots require a complete specification; robots are physical entities; robots implement new technologies; robots can be inadvertent sources of biological inspiration; and robots are {"}cool{"} gadgets.",
author = "Simon Garnier",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-20760-0\_5",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783642207594",
series = "Studies in Computational Intelligence",
pages = "105--120",
editor = "Yan Meng and Yaochu Jin",
booktitle = "Bio-Inspired Self-Organizing Robotic Systems",
}