research/140-swarm-density-analysis

[jharwell]

Investigate for what swarm densities and types of tasks/controllers a swarm can
be considered sparse or dense, according to the time to complete a task
vs. average distance between robots and how long it would take a robot to cross
that distance. For sparse swarms, the cost of doing the task is LESS than the
cost to move to the nearest robot.

This would require implementing the measures of sparsity in the paper and then
performing the analysis.

Another aspect: By doing the above cost calculation for each robot, you can
create a sparseness matrix for the swarm, and can compute how long it takes
information to propagate through the swarm. This would be a FASCINATING measure
of performance and/or self-organization, and to try and correlate it with my
other performance measures.

From one Tarapore2020.