Impact of the Sampling Time on the Aggregation of Robotic Swarms through Informed Robots

Antoine SION, Andreagiovanni Reina, Mauro Birattari, Elio Tuci

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Résumé

Self-organised aggregation is one of the basic collective behaviours studied in swarm robotics. In this paper, we investigate an aggregation problem occurring on two different sites. Previous studies have shown that a minority of robots, informed about the site on which they have to aggregate, can control the final distribution of the entire robot swarm on the sites. We reproduce this strategy by adapting the previous probabilistic finite-state machine to a new simulated robotic platform: the Kilobot. Our simulation results highlight that the update time (i.e., the amount of time a robot waits before making a decision on leaving a site) impacts the dynamics of the aggregation process. Namely, a longer update time lowers the number of robots wandering in the arena, but can slow down the dynamics when the target final distribution is far from the one initially formed. To ensure a low number of wandering robots while maintaining a quick convergence towards the target final distribution of the swarm, we introduce the concept of a dynamic update time increasing during the aggregation process.
langue originaleAnglais
titreProceedings of the 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Sous-titreSAB2022
rédacteurs en chefLola Canamero, Philippe Gaussier, Myra Wilson, Sofiane Baucenna, Nicolas Couperlier
EditeurSpringer
Pages193-204
Nombre de pages12
ISBN (Electronique)978-3-031-16770-6
ISBN (imprimé)978-3-031-16769-0
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - sept. 2022
Evénement16th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior - Cergy-Pontoise, France
Durée: 20 sept. 202223 sept. 2022

Série de publications

NomLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13499 LNAI
ISSN (imprimé)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronique)1611-3349

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Une conférence16th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
Titre abrégéSAB 2022
Pays/TerritoireFrance
La villeCergy-Pontoise
période20/09/2223/09/22

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