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We study a collective decision-making strategy where the modulation of positive feedback results directly from the actions of individual agents of the swarm.
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We recall that parameter g corresponds to the unbiased dissemination time before modulation and parameter \(\sigma ^{-1}\) corresponds to the mean exploration time.
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Valentini, G. (2017). Direct Modulation of Voter-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_5
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