Bflybots: A Novel Robotic-Swarm in Pursuit of Dynamic Signal Sources

Abstract

Nature is a resource for various species which follows variant strategies in their life cycle to survive on the earth. In those, Butterfly is one of the prominent one, which follows different communication strategies for selecting its mate, which leads to design a metaphor Butterfly Mating Optimization (BMO). The Bflybot design, which accomplish the BMO efficacy in hardware architecture. This paper addresses the adaption of Bflybot swarm for dynamic environment and experiments were conducted on various cases for movement of the signal source in both manoeuvring and non manoeuvring scenarios. It also presents various results of single and multi signal sources, moving linearly in between two fixed points, in circular, up and down movements.