Abstract
Swarm robotic systems are a type of multi-robot systems which generally consist of many homogeneous autonomous robots without any type of global controllers. A number of studies of generating collective behavior among autonomous robots have been done activity. On the other hand, no method has been known to grasp the swarm behavior, according to the best of our knowledge. In this paper, we propose a novel method of analyzing the collective behavior incorporating concept of behavior sequence based on technique used in ethology. we pursue transition of behavior sequence in swarm robots from viewpoint of task allocation in a social insect. Applying this method, we attempt to extract a feature of collective behavior in a foraging task.
