The dynamics of collective sorting robot-like ants and ant-like robots
Proceedings of the first international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Adaptation in natural and artificial systems
Diversity and adaptation in populations of clustering ants
SAB94 Proceedings of the third international conference on Simulation of adaptive behavior : from animals to animats 3: from animals to animats 3
Collective sorting and segregation in robots with minimal sensing
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior on From animals to animats 5
Stigmergy, self-organization, and sorting in collective robotics
Artificial Life
An analysis of the behavior of a class of genetic adaptive systems.
An analysis of the behavior of a class of genetic adaptive systems.
Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept
Autonomous Robots
Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot
Autonomous Robots
Comparisons in Evolution and Engineering: The Collective Intelligence of Sorting
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Evolving agent swarms for clustering and sorting
GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
A Distributed Feedback Mechanism to Regulate Wall Construction by a Robotic Swarm
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Robots, insects and swarm intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Review
Connection Science
Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Segregation in swarms of mobile robots based on the brazil nut effect
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Measuring stigmergy: the case of foraging ants
ESOA'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Engineering self-organising systems
Modeling and Optimization of Adaptive Foraging in Swarm Robotic Systems
International Journal of Robotics Research
Forming nested 3D structures based on the Brazil nut effect
TAROS'11 Proceedings of the 12th Annual conference on Towards autonomous robotic systems
Evolving annular sorting in ant-like agents
ECAL'05 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Advances in Artificial Life
Segregation in swarms of e-puck robots based on the Brazil nut effect
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
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This study shows that a task as complicated as multi-object ‘ant-like annular sorting’ can be accomplished with ‘minimalist’ solutions employing simple mechanisms and minimal hardware. It provides an alternative to ‘patch sorting’ for multi-object sorting. Three different mechanisms, based on hypotheses about the behaviour of Leptothorax ants are investigated and comparisons are made. Mechanism I employs a simple clustering algorithm, with objects of different sizes. The mechanism explores the idea that it is the size difference of the object that promotes segregation. Mechanism II is an extension to our earlier two-object segregation mechanism. We test the ability of this mechanism to segregate an increased number of object types. Mechanism III uses a combined leaky integrator, which allows a greater segregation of object types while retaining the compactness of the structure. Its performance is improved by optimizing the mechanism's parameters using a genetic algorithm. We compare the three mechanisms in terms of sorting performance. Comparisons between the results of these sorting mechanisms and the behaviour of ants should facilitate further insights into both biological and robotic research and make a contribution to the further development of swarm robotics.