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Cooperative Transport By Ants and Robots (1998)
| Venue: | ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS |
| Citations: | 116 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Kube98cooperativetransport,
author = {C. Ronald Kube and Eric Bonabeau},
title = {Cooperative Transport By Ants and Robots},
journal = {ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS},
year = {1998},
volume = {30},
pages = {85--101}
}
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Abstract
In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move it, and, when unsuccessful for some time, recruits nestmates through direct contact or chemical marking. When a group of ants tries to move large prey, the ants change position and alignment until the prey can be moved toward the nest. A robotic implementation of this phenomenon is described. Although the robotic system may not appear to be very efficient, it is an interesting example of decentralized problem-solving by a group of robots, and it provides the first formalized model of cooperative transport in ants.
