Engineering cooperative smart things based on embodied cognition

Nathalia Moraes Do Nascimento, Carlos Jose Pereira De Lucena

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    Abstract

    The goal of the Internet of Things (IoT) is to transform any thing around us, such as a trash can or a street light, into a smart thing. A smart thing has the ability of sensing, processing, communicating and/or actuating. In order to achieve the goal of a smart IoT application, such as minimizing waste transportation costs or reducing energy consumption, the smart things in the application scenario must cooperate with each other without a centralized control. Inspired by known approaches to design swarm of cooperative and autonomous robots, we modeled our smart things based on the embodied cognition concept. Each smart thing is a physical agent with a body composed of a microcontroller, sensors and actuators, and a brain that is represented by an artificial neural network. This type of agent is commonly called an embodied agent. The behavior of these embodied agents is autonomously configured through an evolutionary algorithm that is triggered according to the application performance. To illustrate, we have designed three homogeneous prototypes for smart street lights based on an evolved network. This application has shown that the proposed approach results in a feasible way of modeling decentralized smart things with self-developed and cooperative capabilities.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Title of host publication2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2017
    PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
    Pages109-116
    Number of pages8
    ISBN (Electronic)9781538634394
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Sep 19 2017
    Event2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2017 - Pasadena, United States
    Duration: Jul 24 2017Jul 27 2017

    Publication series

    Name2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2017

    Conference

    Conference2017 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems, AHS 2017
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityPasadena
    Period7/24/177/27/17

    All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Aerospace Engineering
    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Instrumentation

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