Abstract
Cooperation as a mean to adapt to dynamic environments is well known in animal world from the social insects up to primates. But similar behavior seems to exist also in simple unicellular microbes. In this paper a novel approach for a very application oriented multi-agent system is taken. The principles of this robot society are derived from bacteria, which are here considered as multicellurar organisms. The analogy from Nature includes bacteria’s ability to communicate through chemical substances, to form a colony (a society) and to act as a predator hunting for food. The concept is tested in simulations, where the behavior of the society is used to demonstrate how the extensive use of chemical in a closed water circuit for algae removal could be minimized with a collective cooperation of mobile underwater robots. Additionally, some early tests with the first generation society member will be shown in order to validate some of the simulation results including a simple topological mapping and navigation method.
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Vainio, M. et al. (1996). An Application Concept of an Underwater Robot Society. In: Asama, H., Fukuda, T., Arai, T., Endo, I. (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 2. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-66942-5_11
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