A Decentralized Ant Colony Foraging Model Using Only Stigmergic Communication

Giancarlo Fortino (1) , Ouarda Zedadra (2) , Nicolas Jouandeau (3) , Hamid Seridi (2)

1 DEIS - Dipartimento di Elettronica Informatica e Sistemistica [Rende]
2 جامعة 8 مايو 45، قالمة [الجزائر] = Université du 8 mai 1945 Guelma [Algérie] = University 8 mai 1945 Guelma [Algeria]
3 LIASD - Laboratoire d'Informatique Avancée de Saint-Denis

This paper addresses the problem of foraging by a coordinated team of robots. This coordination is achieved by markers deposited by robots. In this paper, we present a novel decentralized behavioral model for multi robot foraging named cooperative c-marking agent model. In such model, each robot makes a decision according to the affluence of resource locations, either to spread information on a large scale in order to attract more agents or the opposite. Simulation results show that the proposed model outperforms the well-known c-marking agent model.

Mots clés: Collaborative foraging; reactive coordination; digital pheromone; agent behavioral model; stigmergy

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Giancarlo Fortino, Ouarda Zedadra, Nicolas Jouandeau, Hamid Seridi. A Decentralized Ant Colony Foraging Model Using Only Stigmergic Communication. XV Workshop "Dagli Oggetti agli Agenti", Sep 2014, Catania, Italy. ⟨hal-02317152⟩