A Tuple Space for Data Sharing in Robot Swarms
Journal Title: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Collaborative Computing - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 9
Abstract
In this paper, we present a system to allow a swarm of robots to agree on a set of (key,value) pairs. This system enables a form of information sharing that has the potential to be an asset for coordination in complex environments, such as globally optimized task allocation. Taking inspiration from the environment-mediated communication of social insects, we call the system virtual stigmergy. Experimental evaluation indicates that virtual stigmergy can work in a wide variety of running conditions including heavy packet loss, and can cope with random motion trajectories.
Authors and Affiliations
Carlo Pinciroli, Adam Lee-Brown, Giovanni Beltrame
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- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262503
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