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Artificial Life and Robotics
Published in: Artificial Life and Robotics 4/2018

08-10-2018 | Original Article

Casualty-based cooperation in swarm robots

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Abstract

This paper presents a cooperation of swarm robots based on casualty. The robots are initially placed in a field with a ditch which single robot cannot get across. All robots aim for a common destination. An algorithm for each robot is so simple that some of them are pushed out towards the ditch. The sacrificed robots are left as a part of a bridge. Completed bridge enables the rest to go across the ditch. This phenomenon is considered as an unintentional cooperation. We first show fundamental characteristics of this system investigated by computer simulation. Making mathematical model, we analyze the results obtained by the simulation. We also make small scale robot team and confirm their behavior by experiment.
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Metadata
Title
Casualty-based cooperation in swarm robots
Publication date
08-10-2018
Published in
Artificial Life and Robotics / Issue 4/2018
Print ISSN: 1433-5298
Electronic ISSN: 1614-7456
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-018-0501-7

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