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This article presents a novel bio-inspired navigation principle for swarm robotics that is based on a technique of signal propagation that was inspired by slime mold. We evaluated this strategy in a variety of simulation experiments that simulates a collective cleaning scenario. This scenario includes several sub-tasks like exploration, information propagation and path finding. Using the slime mold-inspired strategy, the simulated robots successfully performed a collective cleaning scenario and showed the ability of finding the shortest path between two target places. Finally, the parameters of the strategy were optimized by artificial evolution and the discovered optima are discussed.
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Schmickl, T., Crailsheim, K. (2007). A Navigation Algorithm for Swarm Robotics Inspired by Slime Mold Aggregation. In: Şahin, E., Spears, W.M., Winfield, A.F.T. (eds) Swarm Robotics. SR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4433. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71541-2_1
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