Analyzing the Relationship between the Cognition Ability of Robotic Swarm and Random Walk Generated by Probability Distribution

Abstract

Swarm robotics is the study of a large group of autonomous robots that emerges collective behavior from local interactions. This paper investigated the relationship between the cognition ability of a robotic swarm and the probability distribution of random walk. The task of the robotic swarm is to achieve consensus on the color that occupies more of the two-colored environment. The robot performs a random walk to explore the environment and disseminate its opinion. Three different probability distributions are employed for generating the random walk to investigate the effect on cognition ability of the robotic swarm. The results show that the random walk which travels the longer distance has better cognition ability to achieve faster consensus.