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Autonomous navigation system applied to collective robotics with ant-inspired communication

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Autonomous navigation system applied to collective robotics with ant-inspired communication
Research in collective robotics is motivated mainly by the possibility of achieving an efficient solution to multi-objective navigation tasks when multiple robots are employed, instead of a single robot. Several approaches have already been tried in multirobot systems, but the bio-inspired ones are the most frequent. This paper proposes to augment an autonomous navigation system based on learning classifier systems for using in collective robotics, introducing an inter-robot communication mechanism inspired by ant stigmergy, with each robot acting independently and cooperatively. The navigation system has no innate basic behavior and all knowledge necessary to compose the decisionmaking artifact is evolved as a function of the environmental feedback only, during navigation. Repulsive and/or attractive pheromone trails are produced by the robots along navigation, following very simple rules. Basically, each robot has to perform obstacle avoidance and target search, and the status of th...
Renato Reder Cazangi, Fernando J. Von Zuben, Maur&
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Type Conference
Year 2005
Where GECCO
Authors Renato Reder Cazangi, Fernando J. Von Zuben, Maurício F. Figueiredo
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