Probability of mixing up the nearest neighbor robot under target enclosure by robot swarm

DOI

10.2991/jrnal.2015.2.3.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

target enclosure, swarm robotics, low cost robot design, collective intelligence

Abstract

This paper analyzes conditions in which a robotic swarm with a simplest communication device can succeed to enclose a target. The robots have to know directions to their each nearest neighbors. Each robot has a same signal emitter like a torch and they can observe the sum of the intensity of their torches. We analyze the probability to the mistake of the direction when a robot adopts the direction of the strongest intensity of the signal as the direction of the nearest neighbor because we expect this approach makes the robot swarm more simple and scalable. The computer simulations show the case of the success.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Masao Kubo
AU  - Hiroshi Sato
AU  - Akihiro Yamaguchi
AU  - Eugene Kitamura
AU  - Akira Namatame
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/12/01
TI  - Probability of mixing up the nearest neighbor robot under target enclosure by robot swarm
JO  - Journal of Robotics, Networking and Artificial Life
SP  - 157
EP  - 161
VL  - 2
IS  - 3
SN  - 2352-6386
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2015.2.3.5
DO  - 10.2991/jrnal.2015.2.3.5
ID  - Kubo2015
ER  -