Group-Size Regulation in Self-organized Aggregation in Robot Swarms

Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Raina Zakir, Judhi Prasetyo, Elio Tuci

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Abstract

In swarm robotics, self-organized aggregation refers to a collective process in which robots form a single aggregate in an arbitrarily chosen aggregation site among those available in the environment, or just in an arbitrarily chosen location. Instead of focusing exclusively on the formation of a single aggregate, in this study we discuss how to design a swarm of robots capable of generating a variety of final distributions of the robots to the available aggregation sites. We focus on an environment with two possible aggregation sites, A and B. Our study is based on the following working hypothesis: robots distribute on site A and B in quantities that reflect the relative proportion of robots in the swarm that selectively avoid A with respect to those that selectively avoid B. This is with an as minimal as possible proportion of robots in the swarm that selectively avoid one or the other site. We illustrate the individual mechanisms designed to implement the above mentioned working hypothesis, and we discuss the promising results of a set of simulations that systematically consider a variety of experimental conditions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSwarm Intelligence - 12th International Conference, ANTS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsMarco Dorigo, Thomas Stützle, Maria J. Blesa, Christian Blum, Heiko Hamann, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Volker Strobel
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages315-323
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030603755
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2020 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Oct 26 2020Oct 28 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12421 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2020
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period10/26/2010/28/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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