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Cooperative Behavior of Interacting Simple Robots in a Clockface Arranged Foraging Field

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Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 5

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Emergence of swarm intelligence is investigated through the foraging task. As the robots assumed in this paper is very simple in order to discuss their behavior analytically, there are a few parameters to characterize their behavior such as interaction duration and interaction range. The behavior of the group is investigated on computer simulation and mathematical model. In this paper, we discuss the definition of swarm intelligence at first, and shows the emergence of swarm intelligence in a clockface arranged foraging field.

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  1. PRESTO, JST. Graduate School of Information Systems, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Chofu Tokyo, 182-8585, Japan

    Ken Sugawara

  2. Depertment of Physics, Univ. of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

    Masaki Sano

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  1. Advanced Engineering Center, RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, 351-0198, Wako-shi, Saitama, Japan

    Hajime Asama (Head of Instrumentation Project Promotion Division) (Head of Instrumentation Project Promotion Division)

  2. Department of Precision Machinery Engineering, The Unviersity of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, 113-8656, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Tamio Arai (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Department of Micro System Engineering, Nagoya University, 464-8603, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Japan

    Toshio Fukuda (Professor) (Professor)

  4. Department of Intelligent Systems Graduate School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, 812-8581, Higaschi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Tsutomu Hasegawa (Professor) (Professor)

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Sugawara, K., Sano, M. (2002). Cooperative Behavior of Interacting Simple Robots in a Clockface Arranged Foraging Field. In: Asama, H., Arai, T., Fukuda, T., Hasegawa, T. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 5. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-65941-9_33

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