Exploiting Bacteria Swarms for Pollution Mapping

摘要：

Inspired by the simplicity of how nature solves its problems, we develop a flocking controller that would enable the localisation and subsequent mapping of environmental pollutants. Pollutants could range from checimal leaks to invisible air borne harzardous materials. We use simulation results to validate our approach and then brie.y discuss how to implement the controller onto a real robotic platform. Our motivation is to use the advantages offered by swarm robotics- simple, multiple and cheap agents- to achieve a collective complex single goal of mapping an environmental pollutant spread over a large area. We aim to make our approach as simple as possible yet highly effective in generating the map.

关键词： Bacterium Inspired Algorithm Environmental Monitoring Flocking.

作者: John Oyekan Huosheng Hu Dongbing Gu

作者单位: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering University of Essex,Wivenhoe Park,Colchester CO3 4SQ,U.K.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics(2009 IEEE 机器人与仿生技术国际会议 ROBIO 2009)

会议地点: 桂林

会议语种:英文

页码: 39-44

在线出版日期: 2009-12-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）