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Ant robotic swarm for visualizing invisible hazardous substances

  • John Oyekan
    ,
  • Huosheng Hu
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Abstract

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.

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Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1-18

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Robotics (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2013

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2013

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/297902
  • Scopus: 84921464718

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