Title :
Modeling the effects of mass and age variation in wolves to explore the effects of heterogeneity in robot team composition
Author :
Madden, John D. ; Arkin, Ronald C.
Author_Institution :
Mobile Robot Lab., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
No two wolves are the same. Some of the variations between individuals such as variation in mass and age have major implications on their hunting abilities. The predatory success of a wolf pack has been found to depend on its composition of individuals along these dimensions. Building from a system for simulating wolf hunting behavior in earlier work [1], this paper explores the effects of heterogeneity among individuals in a team and the utility of these variations for the team as a whole. The implications for robot team control and organization are presented.
Keywords :
mobile robots; multi-robot systems; age variation effect modeling; heterogeneity effects; mass variation effect modeling; predatory success; robot team composition; robot team control; robot team organization; wolf hunting behavior simulation; wolf pack; Aging; Animals; Biological system modeling; Laboratories; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics;
Conference_Titel :
Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Karon Beach, Phuket
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2136-6
DOI :
10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181362
