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Division of labor performed by social insects is one of the most advanced functions that they have evolved. For effective performance, the groups exhibit proportional regulation of population, which implies the proportion of each group is regulated against external disturbances without aid from a special individual. This paper addresses a variable probability model fot the proportion regulation of population in a homogenous multi-robot system, in which the state transition rate is combined with the external materials produced by corresponding task execution. Performance of the proposed model is confirmed by numerical simulations and experiments of simple multi-robot system.
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Sugawara, K., Mizuguchi, T. (2006). A Study on Proportion Regulation Model for Multi-Robot System. In: Gini, M., Voyles, R. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-35881-1_22
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