Toward bacterial swarm for environmental monitoring

Nature inspires many interesting ideas of solving our day to day problems. In this paper, we take inspiration from the chemotaxis behaviour of the bacterium and create a novel algorithm. Simulated results show the feasibility of using a bacterial inspired algorithm in finding a pollution source and then generating a visual 3D representation of the pollutant. We believe that by providing a visual 3D representation of an air pollutant for example, it could lead to an effective, timely and systematic evacuation of humans in a densely populated urban area.