Journal
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 260-271Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2002.800682
Keywords
Chemical plume tracing; collective autonomous robotics; distributed sensing; odor localization; olfaction; swarm intelligence
Funding
- Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering
- National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center [EEC-9402726]
- DARPA [DAAK60-97-K-9503]
- Office of Naval Research [N00014-98-1-0821]
- Army Research Office under MURI [DAAG55-98-1-0266]
- National Science Foundation
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This paper presents an investigation of odor localization by groups of autonomous mobile robots. First, we describe a distributed algorithm by which groups of agents can solve the full odor localization task. Next, we establish that conducting polymer-based odor sensors possess the combination of speed and sensitivity necessary to enable real world odor plume tracing and we demonstrate that simple local position, odor, and flow information, tightly coupled with robot behavior, is sufficient to allow a robot to localize the source of an odor plume. Finally, we show that elementary communication among a group of agents can increase the efficiency of the odor localization system performance.
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