Virtual pheromone based information foraging in modular robotics

Abstract

A bio-inspired mechanism to optimize information foraging in modular robotics is presented. In this context, information exchange between robotic modules are performed through intercommunication of neighbouring robotic modules with limited hardware resources. Inspired from real ant colony research, we propose virtual pheromone as a metric for parameters selection to improve communication quality in modular robotic systems. Experiment results on real robotic platforms illustrate properties of proposed method.