Abstract
In this paper, we discuss the concentration dependency of pheromone communication in swarm robotics. Instead of a pheromone trail and the insect antenna, we used ethanol and an alcohol sensor. This experimental system has a trade-off problem; high concentrations of the pheromone yield high signal strength but the signal duration is short, while low pheromone concentrations yield low signal strength but a long signal duration. We examined the optimal pheromone concentration for a swarm of robots. For this purpose, we developed a swarm behaviour algorithm and swarm robots that communicate using a pheromone trail. In addition, we discuss the effects of the pheromone concentration. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Fujisawa, R., Dobata, S., Kubota, D., Imamura, H., & Matsuno, F. (2008). Dependency by concentration of pheromone trail for multiple robots. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5217 LNCS, pp. 283–290). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87527-7_28
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