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In the previous chapter, it was observed that the agents using the Berg and Brown controller where able to follow and visually form the structure of the experimental plume used in the simulated environment. This behaviour was one that was emergent and was not programmed into the individual robots. In this chapter, investigation into this behaviour is conducted. It has been observed over the years that bacterial populations tend to form rings around food substrates when deployed in them. The type of ring formed varies from bacterial type to bacterial type.
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Oyekan, J.O. (2016). Relationship Between the Berg–Brown Model and the Keller–Segel Model. In: Tracking and Mapping of Spatiotemporal Quantities Using Unicellular Swarm Intelligence. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27425-6_5
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