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Stigmergy

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We demonstrate a scenario in which a mobile robot, according to a plan, builds a structure that it can then enter. The robot interacts with the construction using local sensing. This synthesis of planning and stigmergy opens the way to new construction tec ...

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Artificial pheromone for path selection by a foraging swarm of robots

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Foraging robots involved in a search and retrieval task may create paths to navigate faster in their environment. In this context, a swarm of robots that has found several resources and created different paths may benefit strongly from path selection. Path ...

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Learning and Measuring Specialization in Collaborative Swarm Systems

Alcherio Martinoli

This paper addresses qualitative and quantitative diversity and specialization issues in the framework of selforganizing, distributed, artificial systems. Both diversity and specialization are obtained via distributed learning from initially homogeneous sw ...

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Diversity and Specialization in Collaborative Swarm Systems

Alcherio Martinoli

This paper addresses qualitative and quantitative diversity and specialization issues in the frame- work of self-organizing, distributed, artificial systems. Both diversity and specialization are obtained via distributed learning from initially homogeneous ...

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