Artificial pheromone system using RFID for navigation of autonomous robots

Fuzzy logic control in support of autonomous navigation of humanitarian de-mining robots

“…An example of such a technique is the two-step approach by Tan, which uses a Dijkstra graph search algorithm to generate a collision-free shortest path followed by using an ant colony system algorithm to optimise the location of the path in the environment (Tan, He et al 2007). Another area of autonomous robot navigation inspired by creature behaviour is the development of artificial pheromone algorithms (Herianto, Sakakibara et al 2007). Using these algorithms, navigational systems are based on ant colony behaviour where intelligent data carriers mimic ant pheromones as the communication medium.…”

Cultural transmission in robotic swarms through RFID cards

“…1) designed by Abraham Howell of Abe Howell's Robotics [20]. Unlike other commercially available robots such as the e-Puck [16] or LegoBots [5], the OPEN-ROBOTS are highly functional yet still extremely cost-efficient. The flexibility of these robots has already been demonstrated in several previous experiments, including a simulation of complex foraging behavior [21].…”

“…In an effort to mimic indirect communication in insect colonies, RFID cards have been used as a container for virtual pheromonal information [6], [5], [16]. In mapping applications, virtual pheromones are used to prevent trajectory overlap by individual robots [6] in an attempt to increase mapping performance.…”

“…In mapping applications, virtual pheromones are used to prevent trajectory overlap by individual robots [6] in an attempt to increase mapping performance. Most work in this area gets bogged down in accurate simulation of the concentration and diffusion of real chemicals [16] and thus ends up focusing on error minimization. RFID-pheromone environments are difficult to scale up into larger applications due to oversaturation of the limited memory of many RFID cards with too many pheromones [6].…”

COSΦ: Artificial pheromone system for robotic swarms research

“…Artificial chemical pheromones also require complex and expensive sensors to be developed which renders these approaches infeasible. Therefore, the pheromones were also simulated by means of RFID tags [10], [11], audio sources [12], [13] and light sources [14], [15], [16], [17]. These methods are readily available, easy to use and very flexible when compared to the chemical counterpart.…”