%0 Journal Article
%T Ant Robotic Swarm for Visualizing Invisible Hazardous Substances
%A John Oyekan
%A Huosheng Hu
%J Robotics
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/robotics2010001
%X Inspired by the simplicity of how nature solves its problems, this paper presents a novel approach that would enable a swarm of ant robotic agents (robots with limited sensing, communication, computational and memory resources) form a visual representation of distributed hazardous substances within an environment dominated by diffusion processes using a decentralized approach. Such a visual representation could be very useful in enabling a quicker evacuation of a city¡¯s population affected by such hazardous substances. This is especially true if the ratio of emergency workers to the population number is very small.
%K bio-inspiration
%K ant agents
%K optimal coverage
%K pollution monitoring
%K bacterial foraging
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2218-6581/2/1/1