Title :
Virtual pheromone based information foraging in modular robotics
Author :
Van Tung Le ; Trung Dung Ngo
Author_Institution :
More-Than-One Robot. Lab., Univ. of Brunei Darrussalam, Gadong, Brunei
Abstract :
A bio-inspired mechanism to optimize information foraging in modular robotics is presented. In this context, information exchange between robotic modules are performed through intercommunication of neighbouring robotic modules with limited hardware resources. Inspired from real ant colony research, we propose virtual pheromone as a metric for parameters selection to improve communication quality in modular robotic systems. Experiment results on real robotic platforms illustrate properties of proposed method.
Keywords :
ant colony optimisation; control engineering computing; mobile robots; virtual reality; ant colony research; bioinspired mechanism; communication quality; hardware resource; information exchange; modular robotic system; modular robotics; robotic modules; virtual pheromone based information foraging; Communication channels; Hardware; Optical fiber communication; Protocols; Receivers; Robots; Synchronization; Information Foraging; Modular Robotics; Virtual Pheromone;
Conference_Titel :
Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI), 2014 11th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/URAI.2014.7057373
