Do Ants Need to Estimate the Geometrical Properties of Trail Bifurcations to Find an Efficient Route? A Swarm Robotics Test Bed

Simon Garnier; Maud Combe; Christian Jost; Guy Theraulaz

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002903

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Do Ants Need to Estimate the Geometrical Properties of Trail Bifurcations to Find an Efficient Route? A Swarm Robotics Test Bed

Simon Garnier ,

* E-mail: garnier@njit.edu

Affiliations Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, UMR-CNRS 5169, Université Paul Sabatier, Bât 4R3, Toulouse, France, CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Toulouse, France, Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America
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Maud Combe,

Affiliations Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, UMR-CNRS 5169, Université Paul Sabatier, Bât 4R3, Toulouse, France, CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Toulouse, France
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Christian Jost,

Affiliations Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, UMR-CNRS 5169, Université Paul Sabatier, Bât 4R3, Toulouse, France, CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Toulouse, France
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Guy Theraulaz

Affiliations Centre de Recherche sur la Cognition Animale, UMR-CNRS 5169, Université Paul Sabatier, Bât 4R3, Toulouse, France, CNRS, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Toulouse, France
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Do Ants Need to Estimate the Geometrical Properties of Trail Bifurcations to Find an Efficient Route? A Swarm Robotics Test Bed

Simon Garnier,
Maud Combe,
Christian Jost,
Guy Theraulaz

Published: March 28, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002903

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