Independent navigation and functioning of intelligent agents by social interaction

The focus of the effort underlying this paper is to evolve a co-operation based navigation scheme and a mechanism for ad hoc task division between members of a socially interactive swarm of intelligent robots that may find application in strategic warfare and in landmine detection and neutralization. A novel approach has been adopted for evolving a vision scheme for the intelligent agents that endows each member of the swarm with a considerable level of autonomy thereby allowing for re-configurability of the swarm.