Towards an engineering science of robot foraging

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 8

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 185-192

  Winfield, Alan F T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; LANDMINE DETECTION; MULTIPURPOSE ROBOTS;

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; CANONICAL PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM; ENGINEERING SCIENCE; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; ROBOTIC EXPLORATIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 77951675950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00644-9_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. Balch, T.: Taxonomies of multirobot task and reward. In: Balch, T., Parker, L. (eds.) Robot Teams, pp. 23-35. A K Peters (2002)
2. Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz, G., Deneubourg, J.-L.: Fixed response thresholds and the regulation of division of labour in insect societies. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 60, 753-807 (1998)
3. Dudek, G., Jenkin, M., Milios, E., Wilkes, D.: A taxonomy for multi-agent robotics. Autonomous Robots 3, 375-397 (1996)
4. Gerkey, B.P., Matarić, M.J.: A formal analysis and taxonomy of task allocation in multi-robot systems. International Journal of Robotics Research 23(9), 939-954 (2004)
5. Krieger, M., Billeter, J.: The call of duty: Self-organised task allocation in a population of up to twelve mobile robots. Jour. of Robotics & Autonomous Systems 30, 65-84 (2000)
6. Lerman, K.: Mathematical model of foraging in a group of robots: Effect of interference. Autonomous Robots 13(2), 127-141 (2002)
7. Lerman, K., Jones, C., Galstyan, A., Matarić, M.J.: Analysis of dynamic task allocation in multi-robot systems. Int. Journal of Robotics Research 25(3), 225-242 (2006)
8. Liu, W., Winfield, A.F.T., Sa, J.: Modelling swarm robotic systems: A case study in collective foraging. In: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2007), Aberystwyth, pp. 25-32 (2007)
9. Liu, W., Winfield, A.F.T., Sa, J., Chen, J., Dou, L.: Towards energy optimisation: Emergent task allocation in a swarm of foraging robots. Adaptive Behaviour 15(3), 289-305 (2007)
10. Martinoli, A., Easton, K., Agassounon, W.: Modeling swarm robotic systems: A case study in collaborative distributed manipulation. Int. Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Experimental Robotics 23(4), 415-436 (2004)
11. Østergaard, E.H., Sukhatme, G.S., Matarić, M.J.: Emergent bucket brigading: A simple mechanism for improving performance in multi-robot constrained-space foraging tasks. In: Proc. Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents, Montreal, Canada (2001)
12. Winfield, A.F.T.: Foraging robots. In: Meyers, R.A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science. Springer, Heidelberg (in press, 2009)