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RE: Robotic Ants [Challenges for multiple robots]
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:01:00 GMT
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Mihalka, Michael <(mihalkam@marshallcenter.)NoSpam(org)>
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David,

This looks great. Many thanks! Now to build a colony of robotic creatures.

However, I think an interesting challenge would be to come up with tasks
that require two or more robots to complete. Laying a sense trail to the
food might be one such.

Michael

David Leeper wrote:

Here's a table of the methods a typical ant colony uses for
communication, an
how similar results could be done on the RCX.

[snip]



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  Re: Robotic Ants [Challenges for multiple robots]
 
Michael, I've been thinking about ant trails too. It's seems to me that the RCX would not be a good trail laying creature. But what it is good at is using the IR port. A robot could drive along and possibly store it's trail in a map. When it found (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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