Swarm robotics: A Survey from a Multi-tasking Perspective
The behaviour of social insects such as bees and ants has influenced the development of
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …
swarm robots. To enable robots to cooperate together, swarm robotics employs principles …
Task partitioning in insect societies
FLW Ratnieks, C Anderson - Insectes sociaux, 1999 - Springer
Task partitioning is the name given to the phenomenon in which a piece of work is divided
among two or more workers, such as the partitioning of the collection of a load of forage …
among two or more workers, such as the partitioning of the collection of a load of forage …
Task partitioning in insect societies. I. Effect of colony size on queueing delay and colony ergonomic efficiency
C Anderson, FLW Ratnieks - The American Naturalist, 1999 - journals.uchicago.edu
The collection and handling of colony resources such as food, water, and nest construction
material is often divided into subtasks in which the material is passed from one worker to …
material is often divided into subtasks in which the material is passed from one worker to …
Graded recruitment and hunting strategies linked to prey weight and size in the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum
B Schatz, JP Lachaud, G Beugnon - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1997 - Springer
According to the weight and size of their prey, Ectatomma ruidum workers can employ
different recruitment systems (solitary hunting, cooperative hunting and group hunting with …
different recruitment systems (solitary hunting, cooperative hunting and group hunting with …
Autonomous task partitioning in robot foraging: an approach based on cost estimation
We propose an approach for autonomous task partitioning in swarms of foraging robots.
Task partitioning is the process of decomposing tasks into sub-tasks. Task partitioning …
Task partitioning is the process of decomposing tasks into sub-tasks. Task partitioning …
Earliest behavioral mimicry and possible food begging in a Mesozoic alienopterid pollinator
J Hinkelman - Biologia, 2020 - Springer
Morphological insect-insect mimicry is known from few Cretaceous cockroaches and a
beetle. Formicamendax vrsanskyi gen. et sp. n.(Blattaria, Alienopteridae) shows …
beetle. Formicamendax vrsanskyi gen. et sp. n.(Blattaria, Alienopteridae) shows …
Task partitioning in a robot swarm: Object retrieval as a sequence of subtasks with direct object transfer
We study task partitioning in the context of swarm robotics. Task partitioning is the
decomposition of a task into subtasks that can be tackled by different workers. We focus on …
decomposition of a task into subtasks that can be tackled by different workers. We focus on …
Spatio-Temporal Learning by the ant Ectatomma Ruidum
B Schatz, JP Lachaud… - Journal of Experimental …, 1999 - journals.biologists.com
We tested, under field and laboratory conditions, whether the neotropical ant Ectatomma
ruidum Roger can learn several associations between temporal and spatial changes in the …
ruidum Roger can learn several associations between temporal and spatial changes in the …
Queen dimorphism and reproductive capacity in the ponerine ant, Ectatomma ruidum Roger
JP Lachaud, A Cadena, B Schatz, G Pérez-Lachaud… - Oecologia, 1999 - Springer
We report here the first case of queen dimorphism in a ponerine ant species. A total of 550
colonies of the Neotropical ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum, from two natural populations in …
colonies of the Neotropical ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum, from two natural populations in …
Uncovering species boundaries in the Neotropical ant complex Ectatomma ruidum (Ectatomminae) under the presence of nuclear mitochondrial paralogues
RG Aguilar-Velasco, C Poteaux… - Zoological Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Nuclear mitochondrial (mt) paralogues (numts) are non-functional fragments of mtDNA
integrated into the nuclear genome that can overestimate the number of species in analyses …
integrated into the nuclear genome that can overestimate the number of species in analyses …