Social Inhibition Manages Division of Labour in Artificial Swarm Systems.

Payam Zahadat; Karl Crailsheim; Thomas Schmickl

doi:10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch087

Social Inhibition Manages Division of Labour in Artificial Swarm Systems.

Payam Zahadat
, Karl Crailsheim
, Thomas Schmickl

University of Graz

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel and bio-inspired algorithm for distributed division of labour in swarms of artificial agents (e.g., autonomous underwater vehicles). The algorithm is inspired by division of labour via local interactions in social insects. The algorithm is successfully implemented in virtual agents and simulated robot swarms and demonstrates a high adaptivity in response to changes in the workforce and task demands in the swarm level as well as a high specialization
to tasks in the agents level.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Life Conference Proceedings : ECAL 2013
Number of pages	8
Publisher	MIT Press
Publication date	2013
Pages	609-616
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch087
Publication status	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes
Event	European Conference on Artificial Life - Sicily, Italy Duration: 2 Sept 2013 → 6 Sept 2013 Conference number: 12th

Conference

Conference	European Conference on Artificial Life
Number	12th
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Sicily
Period	02/09/2013 → 06/09/2013

Keywords

Swarm robotics
Distributed task allocation
Bio-inspired algorithms
Multi-agent systems
Task specialization

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