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标题：Ant Robotic Swarm for Visualizing Invisible Hazardous Substances
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作者：John Oyekan ; Huosheng Hu
期刊名称：Robotics
电子版ISSN：2218-6581
出版年度：2013
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：1-18
DOI：10.3390/robotics2010001
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Inspired by the simplicity of how nature solves its problems, this paper presents a novel approach that would enable a swarm of ant robotic agents (robots with limited sensing, communication, computational and memory resources) form a visual representation of distributed hazardous substances within an environment dominated by diffusion processes using a decentralized approach. Such a visual representation could be very useful in enabling a quicker evacuation of a city’s population affected by such hazardous substances. This is especially true if the ratio of emergency workers to the population number is very small.
关键词：bio-inspiration; ant agents; optimal coverage; pollution monitoring; bacterial foraging