Journal
SWARM INTELLIGENCE
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 1-31Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11721-015-0117-7
Keywords
Adaptive foraging; Cooperative behaviour; Autonomous systems
Funding
- Program for Leading Graduate Schools of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
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Developing self-organised swarm systems capable of adapting to environmental changes as well as to dynamic situations is a complex challenge. An efficient labour division model, with the ability to regulate the distribution of work among swarm robots, is an important element of this kind of system. This paper extends the popular response threshold model and proposes a new adaptive response threshold model (ARTM). Experiments were carried out in simulation and in real-robot scenarios with the aim of studying the performance of this new adaptive model. Results presented in this paper verify that the extended approach improves on the adaptability of previous systems. For example, by reducing collision duration among robots in foraging missions, our approach helps small swarms of robots to adapt more efficiently to changing environments, thus increasing their self-sustainability (survival rate). Finally, we propose a minimal version of ARTM, which is derived from the conclusions drawn through real-robot and simulation results.
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