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Multi-Robot Coverage: A Bee Pheromone Signalling Approach

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Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents (ALIA 2014)

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In this paper we propose BeePCo, a multi-robot coverage approach based on honey bee colony behaviour. Specifically, we propose a honey bee inspired pheromone signalling method that allows a team of robots to maximise the total area covered in an environment in a distributed manner. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is experimentally evaluated on three different sizes of multi robot systems (MRSs) and compared against an ant-inspired coverage algorithm (StiCo) to show the different characteristics of these two approaches.

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    Ipek Caliskanelli, Bastian Broecker & Karl Tuyls

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Caliskanelli, I., Broecker, B., Tuyls, K. (2015). Multi-Robot Coverage: A Bee Pheromone Signalling Approach. In: Headleand, C., Teahan, W., Ap Cenydd, L. (eds) Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents. ALIA 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 519. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18084-7_10

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