Future Generation Computer Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Building Terrain-Covering Ant Robots: A Feasibility Study
Autonomous Robots
Artificial Life
Formica ex machina: ant swarm foraging from physical to virtual and back again
ANTS'12 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Swarm Intelligence
An evaluation of the model of stigmergy in a robocup rescue multiagent system
SBIA'12 Proceedings of the 21st Brazilian conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
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In this paper we present an experimental setup to model the pheromone trail based foraging behaviour of ants using a special phosphorescent glowing paint. We have built two custom addons for the e-puck robot that allow for trail laying and following on the glowing floor, as well as a way for the robots to mimic the ants capability of using polarization patterns as a means of navigation. Using simulations we show that our approach allows for efficient pathfinding between nest and potential food sources. Experimental results show that our trail and sun compass add-on boards are accurate enough to allow a single robot to lay and follow a trail repeatedly.