Swarm robotic odor localization
- 1 January 2001
- proceedings article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Vol. 2, 1073-1078
- https://doi.org/10.1109/iros.2001.976311
Abstract
This paper presents an investigation of odor localization by groups of autonomous mobile robots using principles of Swarm Intelligence. We describe a distributed algorithm by which groups of agents can solve the full odor localization task more efficiently than a single agent. We then demonstrate that a group of real robots under fully distributed control can successfully traverse a real odor plume. Finally, we show that an embodied simulator can faithfully reproduce the real robots experiments and thus can be a useful tool for off-line study and optimization of odor localization in the real world.Keywords
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