抄録
In this paper, we discuss some phenomena of distributed transportation inspired by the foraging behavior of ants, in the light of space-discretization (or cellular automata) approach. We define fundamental event rules in a cellular world, and introduce two types of ant agents: one is an oriented ant, which perceives pheromones; the other is a random ant, which does not perceive pheromones. We then take a closer look at the number of pheromone trails formed by homogeneous and heterogeneous agents. Moreover, we propose a distributed control method for the number of formed pheromone trails, and examine the effectiveness of the proposed method in several simulations.
