Social integration of robots into groups of cockroaches to control self-organized choices
Social integration of robots into groups of cockroaches to control self-organized choices
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DOI：
10.1126/science.1144259
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发表时间：
2007-11-16
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
Deneubourg, J. L.
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作者：
Halloy, J.;Sempo, G.;Deneubourg, J. L.
基于自组织的集体行为已经在从昆虫到脊椎动物的群居动物中表现出来。这些发现刺激了工程师们研究基于自组织的自主多机器人系统的协调方法。在这项实验研究中，我们展示了蟑螂和社会整合的自主机器人的混合群体的集体决策，导致了共享的避难所选择。个体，无论是自然的还是人为的，都被认为是平等的，集体决策来自基于局部相互作用的非线性反馈。即使在少数群体中，机器人也可以调节集体决策过程，并产生一种在它们缺席时没有观察到的全球模式。这些结果证明了使用智能自主设备来研究和控制群居动物的自组织行为模式的可能性。
Collective behavior based on self-organization has been shown in group-living animals from insects to vertebrates. These findings have stimulated engineers to investigate approaches for the coordination of autonomous multirobot systems based on self-organization. In this experimental study, we show collective decision-making by mixed groups of cockroaches and socially integrated autonomous robots, leading to shared shelter selection. Individuals, natural or artificial, are perceived as equivalent, and the collective decision emerges from nonlinear feedbacks based on local interactions. Even when in the minority, robots can modulate the collective decision-making process and produce a global pattern not observed in their absence. These results demonstrate the possibility of using intelligent autonomous devices to study and control self-organized behavioral patterns in group-living animals.