Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications
2015
Session Number:A4L-D
Session:
Number:A4L-D-4
Towards Exploration of Pheromone Effect in Object Pattern Formation
Kohei Kubota, Yuichiro Sueoka, Masato Ishikawa, Yasuhiro Sugimoto, Koichi Osuka,
pp.289-292
Publication Date:2015/12/1
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
This paper discusses an exploration of pheromone effect in object pattern formation by autonomous transporting agents, such as termites in nature. This paper is motivated by the performance of termites; they build huge nests by pasting pheromones to a carrying object. After designing an agent model using pheromones, we conducted numerical simulations and evaluated the duration of clustering phase by changing the pheromone sensitivity of an agent . The simulation results indicate that introduction of pheromone enhances the stability of cluster formation. Moreover, it can be said that the transition process of clustering is controlled by tuning pheromone sensitivity.