抄録
The common vampire bat is famous for reciprocal feeding behavior, trophallaxis. The bat donates its energy by disgorging to others of its colony. Wilkinson explained that the advantage of this behavior is the difference of worth of energy. Even if the amount of energy donor loses is same as that of received energy of the recipient, the lifetime that donor loses is shorter than that of prolonging lifetime of the recipient. However, states of the art show this condition is not a necessary. This insight is important because trophallaxis type energy sharing is able to apply more wider application, for example, mobile robots.
In this paper, we discuss the survivability of large size colony with energy sharing. When the colony size is larger, agents can share their energy with only a part of the colony. Therefore, we believe it is important to look at the energy trophallaxis effect on a variety of colony organization. We discuss this issue using by simple computer simulation.
