Testing the reality gap with kilobots performing two ant-inspired foraging behaviours
Niamh Ellis,
Alexander Caravaggio,
Jonathan Kelly
et al.
Abstract:Robotics looks to nature for inspiration to perform effectively in unstructured environments and can be used as a platform to test biological hypotheses. Social animals often share information about food source locations: one example is tandem running in ants, where a leader guides a naive recruit to a known profitable food site. This is extremely advantageous as it allows the sharing of important information among colony members, but it also has costs, such as waiting time inside the nest when no leaders are … Show more
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