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Re: Robotic Ants [Challenges for multiple robots]
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 29 Jan 2000 19:41:37 GMT
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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 its "food", it could send out an IR message to summon other robots. The
robots could follow the IR light as a homing becon. Or, using a messaging
system that can send big messages, like RoboCall, the first robot could send a
map on how to reach the food.
David Leeper (thinks the RCX's chemical signal is really IR light)
In lugnet.robotics, "Mihalka, Michael" <MihalkaM@marshallcenter.org> writes:
> David,
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> This looks great. Many thanks! Now to build a colony of robotic creatures.
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> 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.
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> Michael
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> David Leeper wrote:
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> Here's a table of the methods a typical ant colony uses for
> communication, an
> how similar results could be done on the RCX.
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> [snip]
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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