Automatic design of stigmergy-based behaviours for robot swarms [PDF]
Communications EngineeringStigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which individuals influence their peers by modifying the environment in various ways, including rearranging objects in space and releasing chemicals.
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Stigmergy: from mathematical modelling to control [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceStigmergy, the indirect communication between agents of a swarm through dynamic environmental modifications, is a fundamental self-organization mechanism of animal swarms.
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Stigmergy and Self-Organizing Systems in Swarm Robotics: A Systematic Review [PDF]
SensorsThis systematic review follows the PRISMA 2020 guidelines to provide an analysis of the mechanisms of stigmergy and self-organization in swarm robotics.
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Dwell Time Outperforms Social and Chemical Predictors of Behavioural Transitions in Ants [PDF]
EntropyAgent-based models of collective behaviour can reproduce the macroscopic patterns observed in biological systems, yet reproducing observed behaviour does not guarantee the model captures the true underlying mechanisms.
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Phormica: Photochromic Pheromone Release and Detection System for Stigmergic Coordination in Robot Swarms [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 Stigmergy is a form of indirect communication and coordination in which agents modify the environment to pass information to their peers. In nature, animals use stigmergy by, for example, releasing pheromone that conveys information to other members of ...
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Evolutionary, Neural, or LLM-Driven Heuristic Generation? A Unified Ant Colony Optimization Benchmark for Nature-Inspired Routing Heuristics on the TSP and CVRP [PDF]
BiomimeticsBiomimetic optimization transfers biological information-processing mechanisms into computational systems. Ant colony optimization (ACO) is a canonical example: artificial ants functionally abstract pheromone-mediated stigmergy, decentralized exploration,
Haoyuan Wu, You Wu
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TrailMap: Pheromone-Based Adaptive Peer Matching for Sustainable Online Support Communities [PDF]
BiomimeticsOnline peer support platforms are vital, scalable resources for mental health, yet their effectiveness is frequently undermined by inefficient user matching, severe participation inequality, and subsequent “super-helper” burnout.
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Online Activity Recognition Combining Dynamic Segmentation and Emergent Modeling [PDF]
Sensors, 2022 Activity recognition is fundamental to many applications envisaged in pervasive computing, especially in smart environments where the resident’s data collected from sensors will be mapped to human activities. Previous research usually focuses on scripted
Zimin Xu, Guoli Wang, Xuemei Guo
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Bio-Inspired Swarm Navigation on Resource-Constrained Robots for GPS-Denied Environments [PDF]
SensorsExperimental validation delivers five quantified outcomes. First, optical pheromone detection achieves 88.7% ± 0.6% accuracy (n = 150, 95% CI), and the dual-modality combined channel achieves 86.1% ± 0.9% (n = 200), with robustness confirmed under 50/60 ...
Chandan Sheikder +7 more
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Evolution of self-organised division of labour driven by stigmergy in leaf-cutter ants [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Social insects owe their widespread success to their ability to efficiently coordinate behaviour to carry out complex tasks. Several leaf-cutter ant species employ an advanced type of division of labour known as task partitioning, where the task of ...
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