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Artificial pheromone for path selection by a foraging swarm of robots

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 ...

2010

Self-Organized Aggregation Triggers Collective Decision Making in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

Masoud Asadpour, Simon Garnier

Self-amplification processes are at the origin of several collective decision phenomena in insect societies. Understanding these processes requires linking individual behavioral rules of insects to a choice dynamics at the colony level. In a homogeneous en ...

2009

The embodiment of cockroach aggregation behavior in a group of micro-robots

Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Simon Garnier

We report the faithful reproduction of the self-organized aggregation behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica with a group of robots. We describe the implementation of the biological model provided by Jeanson et al. in Alice robots, and we com ...

2008

Collective Decision-Making by a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Simon Garnier

In group-living animals, aggregation favours interactions as well as information exchanges between individuals, and allows thus the emergence of complex collective behaviors. In previous works, a model of a self-enhanced aggregation was deduced from experi ...

2005

Aggregation Behaviour as a Source of Collective Decision in a Group of Cockroach-Like Robots

Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Simon Garnier

Springer-Verlag2005