Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing
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Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems
Autonomous Robots
The impact of diversity on performance in multi-robot foraging
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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Cooperative Mobile Robotics: Antecedents and Directions
Autonomous Robots
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Autonomous Robots
Swarm-Bot: A New Distributed Robotic Concept
Autonomous Robots
Evolving Self-Organizing Behaviors for a Swarm-Bot
Autonomous Robots
Learning and Measuring Specialization in Collaborative Swarm Systems
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
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Design and Analysis of Experiments
Interference as a tool for designing and evaluating multi-robot controllers
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Towards Energy Optimization: Emergent Task Allocation in a Swarm of Foraging Robots
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
A bio-inspired architecture for division of labour in SANETs
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Bio inspired models of network, information and computing systems
Swarms of Self-assembling Robots
Engineering Environment-Mediated Multi-Agent Systems
Insect sensory systems inspired computing and communications
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Get in touch: cooperative decision making based on robot-to-robot collisions
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots
Adaptive Behavior - Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 1
Theoretical Study of Ant-based Algorithms for Multi-Agent Patrolling
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Teamwork in self-organized robot colonies
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Optimized stochastic policies for task allocationin swarms of robots
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
ICRA'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Robotics and Automation
Evolution of division of labor in genetically homogenous groups
Proceedings of the 12th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 2 - Volume 2
Modeling and Optimization of Adaptive Foraging in Swarm Robotic Systems
International Journal of Robotics Research
Multi-agent role allocation: issues, approaches, and multiple perspectives
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
The evolution of division of labor
ECAL'09 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Advances in artificial life: Darwin meets von Neumann - Volume Part II
Review: Of robot ants and elephants: A computational comparison
Theoretical Computer Science
Costs and benefits of behavioral specialization
TAROS'11 Proceedings of the 12th Annual conference on Towards autonomous robotic systems
Towards artificial evolution of complex behaviors observed in insect colonies
EPIA'11 Proceedings of the 15th Portugese conference on Progress in artificial intelligence
Costs and benefits of behavioral specialization
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Prominent Causal Paths in a Simple Self-Organizing System
International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach
GESwarm: grammatical evolution for the automatic synthesis of collective behaviors in swarm robotics
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Swarm robots search based on artificial physics optimisation algorithm
International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics
The model of swarm robots search with local sense based on artificial physics optimisation
International Journal of Computing Science and Mathematics
Self-organized task allocation to sequentially interdependent tasks in swarm robotics
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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In this article, we analyze the behavior of a group of robots involved in an object retrieval task. The robots' control system is inspired by a model of ants' foraging. This model emphasizes the role of learning in the individual. Individuals adapt to the environment using only locally available information. We show that a simple parameter adaptation is an effective way to improve the efficiency of the group and that it brings forth division of labor between the members of the group. Moreover, robots that are best at retrieving have a higher probability of becoming active retrievers. This selection of the best members does not use any explicit representation of individual capabilities. We analyze this system and point out its strengths and its weaknesses.