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Social Integration of Robots into Groups of Cockroaches to Control Self-Organized Choices

Halloy, J.
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Sempo, G.
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Caprari, G.
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2007
Science

Collective behavior based on self-organization has been shown in group-living animals from insects to vertebrates. These findings have stimulated engineers to investigate approaches for the coordination of autonomous multirobot systems based on self-organization. In this experimental study, we show collective decision-making by mixed groups of cockroaches and socially integrated autonomous robots, leading to shared shelter selection. Individuals, natural or artificial, are perceived as equivalent, and the collective decision emerges from nonlinear feedbacks based on local interactions. Even when in the minority, robots can modulate the collective decision-making process and produce a global pattern not observed in their absence. These results demonstrate the possibility of using intelligent autonomous devices to study and control self-organized behavioral patterns in group-living animals.

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Type
research article
DOI
10.1126/science.1144259
Web of Science ID

WOS:000250957900051

Author(s)
Halloy, J.
Sempo, G.
Caprari, G.
Rivault, C.
Asadpour, M.
Tache, F.
Said, I.
Durier, V.
Canonge, S.
Ame, J.M.
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Date Issued

2007

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Published in
Science
Volume

318

Issue

5853

Start page

1155

End page

1158

Subjects

[MOBOTS]

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insbot

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leurre

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animal-robot-interaction

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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November 15, 2007
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/14708
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