This chapter explores the innovative use of drones in collecting data from volcanoes and showcases how they are programmed to self-organize and work together efficiently. It introduces the concept of co-robots and discusses the implementation of adaptive natural algorithms and flocking algorithms in the data collection process.
Today, we're going to return to the idea of taking concepts from complexity science and applying them to situations in the real world.
In this episode, we're joined again by Melanie Moses, Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. She's going to share with us about her recent trip to Iceland to study active volcanoes. More specifically, Melanie is going to explain how you can program a swarm of drones to fly in formation and map the CO2 plume of a volcano.
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