A multi-agent model of yellowjacket wasp nest construction

Author

Altenburg, Karl

Author_Institution

North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

Yellowjacket wasps produce among the most complex and fascinating non-human artifacts. As an animal model of a complex, decentralized system of construction, yellowjackets are without compare. A multi-agent model of nest construction is presented. A variety of nest features and nest types were generated and compared to naturally occurring nests of several species of wasps. The multi-agent control principles developed not only serve to illuminate possibly biological-based behavioral control for nest construction but could also be extended to physical robot agents building other real artifacts.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; multi-robot systems; biological-based behavioral control; decentralized system; multiagent control principles; multiagent model; nest features; nest types; physical robot agents; yellowjacket wasp nest construction; Biological system modeling; Buildings; Computational modeling; Insects; Predator prey systems; Strips; Substrates; Computational systems biology; Dolichovespula; Vespula; multiagent systems; zoology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electro/Information Technology (EIT), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Mankato, MN

ISSN

2154-0357

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-465-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EIT.2011.5978627

Filename

5978627