Abstract
Inspired by the simplicity of how nature solves its problems, this paper presents a novel approach that would enable a swarm of ant robotic agents (robots with limited sensing, communication, computational and memory resources) form a visual representation of distributed hazardous substances within an environment dominated by diffusion processes using a decentralized approach. Such a visual representation could be very useful in enabling a quicker evacuation of a city’s population affected by such hazardous substances. This is especially true if the ratio of emergency workers to the population number is very small.Citation
Oyekan, J. & HU, H. (2013) 'Ant Robotic Swarm for Visualizing Invisible Hazardous Substances', Robotics, 2(1), pp.1-18Journal
RoboticsAdditional Links
http://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/2/1/1/Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
2218-6581ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3390/robotics2010001