Swarm Intelligence & Analytics
Inspired by biology, powered by mathematics — DISAL's flagship research area designs scalable decentralised algorithms for drone fleets, smart grids, and complex system optimisation.
Swarm Intelligence & Analytics
Drawing inspiration from ant colonies, bird flocks, and fish schools, our swarm intelligence research builds algorithms that solve complex optimisation problems through collective emergent behaviour. Applications range from multi-UAV coordination and smart-grid load balancing to logistics and disaster-response robotics.
Key Research Topics
Multi-UAV Coordination
Decentralised formation control, task allocation, and collision avoidance for heterogeneous drone swarms in GPS-denied environments.
Swarm Optimisation Algorithms
Bio-inspired algorithms — PSO, ACO, Bee Algorithms — applied to NP-hard combinatorial and continuous optimisation problems.
Smart Grid Applications
Swarm-based demand-response and fault-isolation strategies for resilient distributed energy networks.
Collective Decision-Making
Consensus protocols and stigmergic communication mechanisms enabling robust collective decisions without centralised coordination.
Current Projects
DroneMesh: Multi-UAV Disaster Response Swarm
Decentralised swarm of 20+ UAVs that coordinate search-and-rescue operations in GPS-denied post-disaster environments using only local communication and stigmergic shared maps.…
Active · 2024–2026GridSwarm: Distributed Energy Network Optimisation
Swarm-optimised demand-response and fault-isolation agents deployed on a microgrid testbed at the University of Ghana, reducing peak load variance by 31%.…
Pilot · 2025Related Publications
Decentralised UAV Swarm Control in GPS-Denied Environments
Justice Kwame Appati, Kofi Osei, Elena Rodriguez
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
Edge AI Pipelines for Real-Time Community Disease Surveillance
Anya Chen, Sarah Jenkins
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Interested in Collaborating?
We welcome partnerships with institutions, NGOs, and researchers working at the frontier of AI and this domain.