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“Look out!”: Socially-Mediated Obstacle Avoidance in Collective Transport

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Swarm Intelligence (ANTS 2010)

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In collective transport, a group of robots has to cooperate in order to transport an object. Collective transport is necessary when transporting the object is hard or impossible for a single robot. The task is particularly difficult when communication bandwidth is limited, there is no access to global information or when using a decentralized approach. In these cases, an effective distributed coordination among the robots is necessary.

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  1. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Eliseo Ferrante, Manuele Brambilla, Mauro Birattari & Marco Dorigo

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  1. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Marco Dorigo

  2. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Mauro Birattari

  3. ’Dalla Molle’ Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Galleria 2, 6928, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

    Gianni A. Di Caro

  4. Complex Systems Institute, Paris-Ile-de-France, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS, 57-59, rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, France

    René Doursat

  5. Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, 0002, P.O. Box, Pretoria, South Africa

    Andries P. Engelbrecht

  6. EPFL, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dario Floreano

  7. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland

    Luca Maria Gambardella

  8. Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Mappin Street, S1 3JD, Sheffield, UK

    Roderich Groß

  9. KOVAN Research Lab., Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Inonu Bulvari, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

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  10. Department of Bioengineering, Binghamton University, State University of New York, 13902-6000, Binghamton NY, USA

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  11. IRIDIA, CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue F. Roosevelt 50, CP 194/6, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Thomas Stützle

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Ferrante, E., Brambilla, M., Birattari, M., Dorigo, M. (2010). “Look out!”: Socially-Mediated Obstacle Avoidance in Collective Transport. In: Dorigo, M., et al. Swarm Intelligence. ANTS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15461-4_66

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