Ant robotics

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Ant robotics is a special case of

ants that lay and follow pheromone trails. Some ant robots use long-lasting trails (either regular trails of a chemical substance[1] or smart trails of transceivers[2]). Others use short-lasting trails including heat[3] and alcohol.[4] Others even use virtual trails.[5]

Invention

In 1991, American electrical engineer

communication systems capable of detecting objects in their path. McLurkin's invention was through studying the behavior of real ants in ant colonies and keeping ant farms as a basis for his programming. Through this examination, he could better understand how insects structured their workloads in order to produce a viable and working prototype of robotic ants.[6]

Background

Researchers have developed ant robot hardware and software and demonstrated, both in simulation and on physical

probabilistic reasoning for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping
problem.

Researchers have also developed a theoretical foundation for ant robotics, based on ideas from real-time

stochastic analysis and graph theory.[7]

See also

  • ant colony optimization

References

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  6. ^ "James McLurkin". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 2003-04-15.
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The text of this article was adopted from the Tutorial on Ant Robotics in compliance with their Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike Unported License and the GNU Free Documentation License.

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