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Authors: Tiago Rodrigues ; Miguel Duarte ; Sancho Oliveira and Anders Lyhne Christensen

Affiliation: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) and BioMachines Lab, Portugal

Keyword(s): Swarm Robotics, Evolutionary Robotics, Situated Communication, Local Collective Sensing

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Agents ; Artificial Intelligence ; Biomedical Engineering ; Biomedical Signal Processing ; Computational Intelligence ; Cooperation and Coordination ; Evolutionary Computing ; Health Engineering and Technology Applications ; Human-Computer Interaction ; Methodologies and Methods ; Neural Networks ; Neurocomputing ; Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics ; Pattern Recognition ; Physiological Computing Systems ; Reactive AI ; Robot and Multi-Robot Systems ; Sensor Networks ; Signal Processing ; Soft Computing ; Theory and Methods

Abstract: The constituent robots in swarm robotics systems are typically equipped with relatively simple, onboard sensors of limited quality and range. When robots have the capacity to communicate with one another, communication has so far been exclusively used for coordination. In this paper, we present a novel approach in which local, situated communication is leveraged to overcome the sensory limitations of the individual robots. In our approach, robots share sensory inputs with neighboring robots, thereby effectively extending each other’s sensory capabilities. We evaluate our approach in a series of experiments in which we evolve controllers for robots to capture mobile preys. We compare the performance of (i) swarms that use our approach, (ii) swarms in which robots use only their limited onboard sensors, and (iii) swarms in which robots are equipped with ideal sensors that provide extended sensory capabilities without the need for communication. Our results show that swarms in which loc al communication is used to extend the sensory capabilities of the individual robots outperform swarms in which only onboard sensors are used. Our results also show that in certain experimental configurations, the performance of swarms using our approach is close to the performance of swarms with ideal sensors. (More)

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Rodrigues, T.; Duarte, M.; Oliveira, S. and Lyhne Christensen, A. (2015). Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms - Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-074-1; ISSN 2184-433X, SciTePress, pages 111-118. DOI: 10.5220/0005215401110118

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title={Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms - Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART},
year={2015},
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doi={10.5220/0005215401110118},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART
TI - Beyond Onboard Sensors in Robotic Swarms - Local Collective Sensing through Situated Communication
SN - 978-989-758-074-1
IS - 2184-433X
AU - Rodrigues, T.
AU - Duarte, M.
AU - Oliveira, S.
AU - Lyhne Christensen, A.
PY - 2015
SP - 111
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0005215401110118
PB - SciTePress