Controlling ant-based construction
Controlling ant-based construction
This paper investigates the dynamics of decentralised nest construction in the ant species Leptothorax tuberointerruptus, exploring the contribution of, and interaction between, a pheromone building template and a physical building template (the bodies of the ants themselves). We present a continuous-space model of ant behaviour capable of generating ant-like nest structures, the integrity and shapes of which are non-trivially determined by choice of parameters and the building template(s) employed. We go on to demonstrate that the same behavioural algorithm is capable of generating a somewhat wider range of architectural forms, and discuss its limitations and potential extensions.
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Pitonakova, Lenka
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Bullock, Seth
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Pitonakova, Lenka
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Bullock, Seth
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Pitonakova, Lenka and Bullock, Seth
(2013)
Controlling ant-based construction.
Liò, Pietro, Miglino, Orazio, Nicosia, Giuseppe, Nolfi, Stefano and Pavone, Mario
(eds.)
In Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013. Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems.
MIT Press.
.
(doi:10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch023).
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This paper investigates the dynamics of decentralised nest construction in the ant species Leptothorax tuberointerruptus, exploring the contribution of, and interaction between, a pheromone building template and a physical building template (the bodies of the ants themselves). We present a continuous-space model of ant behaviour capable of generating ant-like nest structures, the integrity and shapes of which are non-trivially determined by choice of parameters and the building template(s) employed. We go on to demonstrate that the same behavioural algorithm is capable of generating a somewhat wider range of architectural forms, and discuss its limitations and potential extensions.
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Published date: 2013
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Twelfth European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Taormina, Italy, 2013-09-01 - 2013-09-05
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/361147
ISBN: 9780262317092
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Lenka Pitonakova
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Pietro Liò
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Orazio Miglino
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Giuseppe Nicosia
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Stefano Nolfi
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Mario Pavone
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