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A Swarm Approach to Public Transit Using On-demand Routing in a Slime-Mold-Inspired Framework
Lindsay Burke, Maxfield Comstock, Jason Graham +3
Demand-responsive transit (DRT) is a flexible alternative to traditional, fixed-route mass-transit networks. Although DRT can function well in low-density communities, high operati…
Argentine ants regulate traffic flow with stopped individuals
Ulrich Dobramysl, Simon Garnier, Laure-Anne Poissonnier +2
We investigated the emerging traffic patterns of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) as they navigated a narrow bridge between their nest and a food source. By tracking ant movemen…
Decentralised construction of a global coordinate system in a large swarm of minimalistic robots
Michal Pluhacek, Simon Garnier, Andreagiovanni Reina
Collective intelligence and autonomy of robot swarms can be improved by enabling the individual robots to become aware they are the constituent units of a larger whole and what is…
Steering self-organisation through confinement
Nuno A. M. Araújo, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Thomas Barois +26
Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in…
Anatomy of a superorganism -- structure and growth dynamics of army ant bivouacs
Thomas Bochynek, Florian Schiffers, André Aichert +3
Beyond unicellular and multicellular organisms, there is a third type of structural complexity in living animals: that of the mechanical self-assembly of groups of distinct multice…
Individual rules for trail pattern formation in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile)
Andrea Perna, Boris Granovskiy, Simon Garnier +5
We studied the formation of trail patterns by Argentine ants exploring an empty arena. Using a novel imaging and analysis technique we estimated pheromone concentrations at all spa…