Cooperative Foraging Behavior of Multi-robot System with Simple Interaction

Abstract

In this paper, we introduced multi-robot with simple interaction, and investigated their behavior from quantitative aspect. Here, we chose a foraging task and measured the performance of heterogeneous system which is composed of interacting units and isolated units. Focusing on the relation between the ratio of interacting units and the fractal dimension of food distribution, we found out there is an optimum ratio for effective food collection. We also discuss the model for task allocation in order to obtain optimum group ratio.