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We investigate an example of collective decision-making strategy that entirely relies on the environment for the modulation of positive feedback.
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Note that, due to the team’s size of 3 robots, the application of the majority rule always results in a team’s consensus due to the impossibility of decision ties.
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The reader may refer to Appendix A for a minimal background on time-homogeneous Markov chains.
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Valentini, G. (2017). Indirect Modulation of Majority-Based Decisions. In: Achieving Consensus in Robot Swarms. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 706. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53609-5_4
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