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Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2013

Session Number:A2L-C

Session:

Number:53

Analysis of distributed transportation with autonomous mobile agents inspired by foraging behavior of ants

Kazuki NAKAYAMA,  Yuichiro SUEOKA,  Takuto KITA,  Masato ISHIKAWA,  Yasuhiro SUGIMOTO,  Koichi OSUKA,  

pp.53-56

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Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.2.53

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In this paper, we discuss some phenomena of distributed object transportation inspired by foraging behavior of ants, in the light of space-discretization (or cellular automata) approach. We define fundamental event rules in a cellular world, and introduce two types of ant agents: one is an oriented ant, which perceives pheromones, the other is a random ant, which does not perceive pheromones. Then, we take a closer look at the number of pheromone trails formed by homogeneous and heterogeneous agents. Moreover, we propose a distributed control method for the number of formed pheromone trails, and examine the effectiveness of the proposed method by several simulations.

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