In this paper we present an experimental setup to model the pheromone trail based foraging behaviour of ants using a special phosphorescent glowing paint. We have built two custom addons for the e-puck robot that allow for trail laying and following on the glowing floor, as well as a way for the robots to mimic the ants capability of using polarization patterns as a means of navigation. Using simulations we show that our approach allows for efficient pathfinding between nest and potential food sources. Experimental results show that our trail and sun compass add-on boards are accurate enough to allow a single robot to lay and follow a trail repeatedly. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Mayet, R., Roberz, J., Schmickl, T., & Crailsheim, K. (2010). Antbots: A feasible visual emulation of pheromone trails for swarm robots. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6234 LNCS, pp. 84–94). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_8
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