Phormica: pheromone release and detection system

Muhammad Salman, David Garzón Ramos, Ken Hasselmann, and Mauro Birattari

Phormica is a novel system developed to conduct experiments in swarm robotics that enables a swarm of e-puck robots to release and detect artificial pheromone. Phormica emulates pheromone-based stigmergy thanks to the ability of robots to project UV light on the ground, which has been previously covered with a photochromic material.

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Automatic Design of Robot Swarms

Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle

IRIDIA

Institut de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et de Développements en Intelligence Artificielle

ULB

Université Libre de Bruxelles