• DocumentCode
    3575719
  • Title

    Virtual pheromone based information foraging in modular robotics

  • Author

    Van Tung Le ; Trung Dung Ngo

  • Author_Institution
    More-Than-One Robot. Lab., Univ. of Brunei Darrussalam, Gadong, Brunei
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    379
  • Lastpage
    384
  • Abstract
    A bio-inspired mechanism to optimize information foraging in modular robotics is presented. In this context, information exchange between robotic modules are performed through intercommunication of neighbouring robotic modules with limited hardware resources. Inspired from real ant colony research, we propose virtual pheromone as a metric for parameters selection to improve communication quality in modular robotic systems. Experiment results on real robotic platforms illustrate properties of proposed method.
  • Keywords
    ant colony optimisation; control engineering computing; mobile robots; virtual reality; ant colony research; bioinspired mechanism; communication quality; hardware resource; information exchange; modular robotic system; modular robotics; robotic modules; virtual pheromone based information foraging; Communication channels; Hardware; Optical fiber communication; Protocols; Receivers; Robots; Synchronization; Information Foraging; Modular Robotics; Virtual Pheromone;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2014 11th International Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/URAI.2014.7057373
  • Filename
    7057373