Evolution of self-organised path formation in a swarm of robots

Authors:
Valerio Sperati;Vito Trianni;Stefano Nolfi
Affiliations:
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy;Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy;Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
Venue:
ANTS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Swarm intelligence
Year:
2010

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Abstract

We present a set of experiments in which a robotic swarm manages to collectively explore the environment, forming a path to navigate between two target areas, which are too distant to be perceived by an agent at the same time. Robots within the path continuously move back and forth between the two locations, exploiting visual interactions with their neighbours. The global group behaviour is obtained through an evolutionary process and presents emergent properties like robustness, path optimisation and scalability, which recall ants trail formation.