... species are very restricted and others are more sophisticated. 2Infra-red sensors with short-range for obstacles (10 cm). 3Direct by means of contact and indirect by means of pheromones. Inspired by such a natural process and regarding ...
... Stigmergic information is local : it can only be accessed by those insects that visit the locus in which it was ... species colonies , stigmergy refers to the deposition of pheromone by ants while they are moving . Other ants can ...
... stigmergy. If members of a species, for instance, have an inbred re- sponse to encountering a pheromone-drenched ball of mud, then any bug that deposits such a ball is unintentionally sending a message to any others that might pass by ...
... species of ants and allow complex stigmergic interactions such as attraction to the pheromone of the same species and repulsion from that of the others. These algorithms have been successfully applied to problems such as edge disjoint ...
... stigmergic communication. However, ants also use other forms of communication, including visual, auditory, and tactile communication. For example, some species of ants use sound to communicate with each other. These sounds can range ...
Santpal Singh Dhillon. Chapter 4 Introduction to ant routing Stigmergy ( from the Greek stigma : sting and ergon ... species [ 101 ] . The basic principle of stigmergy is simple . Traces of chemicals left in the environ- ment or ...
... species has further led to the understanding of the evolutionary adaptations of nest structures in social insects and the general rules and feedback responses that guide their construction . 26 , 27 , 28 THE PROCESS OF STIGMERGY Stigmergy ...
... Stigmergic. Stigmergy is a term used in biology to describe how insects like ants can communicate by what they have left in the environment. For example, ants leaving pheromone trails is stigmergic. In stigmergy, the agents do not ...
... stigmergic communication in ants has been studied in controlled experi- ments by Deneubourg et al. [15]. In their experiments, which involved ants of the species Linepithema humile (Argentine ants), the ants' nest was connected to a ...
... stigmergy is apparent in organisms as diverse as bacteria, slime-molds, and fish (White, 2005), ants have emerged as a primary species of study. Ants have a set of internal “algorithms” that allow them to modify their local environ ...