Written by Simon Garnier on August 9, 2007 – 3:18 pm
&bull Filed Under Swarm Intelligence
Good news, at least for me. The article called "The Embodiment of Cockroach Aggregation Behavior in a Group of Micro-Robots" I wrote with Christian Jost, Jacques Gautrais, Raphaël Jeanson, Masoud Asadpour, Gilles Caprari, Anne Grimal and Guy Theraulaz (take a breath) has been accepted for publication in Artificial Life. I still have to address some minor corrections before the final version can be released. But to make you stay patient, here are the abstract of the paper and two illustrating videos:
Abstract: In this paper we report the faithfull reproduction of the self-organized aggregation behavior of the German cockroach Blattella germanica with a group of robots. We describe the implementation of the biological model provided by Jeanson et al. (2003, 2005) in Alice robots and we compare the behaviors of the cockroaches and the robots using the same experimental and analytical methodology. We show that the aggregation behavior of the German cockroach was succesfully transferred to the robot Alice despite strong perceptual differences between robots and animals. This paper highlights some of the major constraints one may encounter during such a work and proposes general principles to ensure that the behavioral model is accurately transfered to the artificial agents. ~~~~~
Copyright Raphaël Jeanson.
Copyright Simon Garnier.